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Workplace Risk Assessment PDF

This document provides guidance on conducting a workplace risk assessment. It defines hazards and risks, and explains that risk is the likelihood and severity of harm. The risk assessment process involves identifying hazards and risks, evaluating their likelihood and severity, and suggesting control measures. Control measures follow a hierarchy of eliminating, substituting, isolating, using engineering controls, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment as a last resort. The document provides questions to identify hazards for each process and explains that risk assessments should protect worker health and safety and the environment.

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Workplace Risk Assessment PDF

This document provides guidance on conducting a workplace risk assessment. It defines hazards and risks, and explains that risk is the likelihood and severity of harm. The risk assessment process involves identifying hazards and risks, evaluating their likelihood and severity, and suggesting control measures. Control measures follow a hierarchy of eliminating, substituting, isolating, using engineering controls, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment as a last resort. The document provides questions to identify hazards for each process and explains that risk assessments should protect worker health and safety and the environment.

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WORKPLACE RISK ASSESSMENT

How to manage risks?

What is HAZARD ?

Identify the risk something with the potential to cause harm…

What is RISK ?
reflects both the likelihood (probability) that
harm will occur and its severity

Evaluate the risk RISK = Likelihood x Severity

Eliminate the risk

Substitute the risk Isolate the risk PPE


How to conduct the risk assessment?

to protect worker’s health and safety…


properties… and environment

1- Identify the risk


2- Evaluate the risk: likelihood and severity
3-Suggest appropriate control measures
(hierarchy of controls: prioritise the strategy &
activity)

1- Eliminate/substitute/isolate the risks


2- Engineering controls (technical)
3- Administrative controls
4- PPE (the last resort)
What is Hazard Identification?

• Questions that must be asked for each process in


chemical plant
1- What are the hazards? (Hazard Identification)
2- What can go wrong and how?
3- What are the chances? (Provide basic
information)
4- What are the consequences? for risk assessment)
Risk Assessment

The main aim of the risk assessment is


:
1- to protect workers’ health and
safety.

2- helps to minimize the possibility of


the environment being harmed due
to work-related activities.

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Hazard – the potential for something to cause harm–
an intrinsic property…

Risk – the likelihood of that hazard to actually cause


harm…

Risk = likelihood of an X severity of


event outcome
(Probability)

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Risk assessment is the process of:

a- Identifying the hazard & the Risk,


b- Analysing / evaluating the associated risk, the likelihood of
an injury or illness occurring, and its severity
c- Determining appropriate ways to eliminate or control the
hazard & the Risk

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Risk Assessment
Risk assessment helps to….

1-Determine if existing control measures are adequate


or if more should be done

2-Prevent injuries or illnesses when done at the


design or planning stage

3-Prioritize hazards and control measures

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a- Assessments should be done by a competent team of individuals
who have a good working knowledge of the workplace.

b- Include staff, supervisors & workers who work with the process
under review as they are the most familiar with the operation.

c- Include both people familiar with the work area, as well as


people who are not – in this way you have both the
"experienced" and "fresh" eye to conduct the inspection.

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Source: DOSH (2008)

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Source: DOSH (2008)

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Source: DOSH (2008)

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WRA TEMPLATE
- refer to WRA template in MS Excel
THANK YOU

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