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35. Risk Assessment Statement
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Risk Assessment Statement:
1. Every company have a legal obligation to have a written Occupational Health And Safety (OHS) policy in compliance with ISO/IEC 45001.
2. Every company (with more than four personnel) have a legal obligation to undertake a risk assessment of each kind of job before it is undertaken.
3. Construction (Design and Management) (CDM) Regulations 2015 are a legal obligation in the construction industry to Plan, Manage and Monitor all construction work under their control - this may require a CDM Construction Phase Plan or General Risk Assessment.
4. The overall project has a general "Method Statement" to identify hazards, risks and controls.
5. A Risk Assessment and Method Statement (RAMS) is a control measure signed by trades people as they become involved in such a hazard as identified by their DAB.
6. The primary and long-term purpose of this online facility is to manage the relationship of DAB activities with DAB hazards.   Daily Activity Briefing (DAB) is like a mini-RAMS just for the days activities.
Method Statement:
1. A risk assessment shall preceed each Method Statement, however a Method statement may involve many risk assessments for each major job in the work plan.   When bidding to do a project, a Method Statement shall be part of the bid.   When undertaking a project, the Method Statements shall be continually reviewed and revised.
2. Method Statement is a legal obligation under the Construction (Design and Management) (CDM) Regulations 2015 as a means to minimise risk and manage hazards.
3. RAMS Preparation:
  (1). PFC Reson Installation
  (2). Excavation
  (3). Demolition
  (4). Frame Sequence
  (5). Grouting of Seals
  (6). Diamond Core Drilling
Risk Assessment:
1. Risk assessment information may be made available in multiple languages to ensure that all trades people are properly briefed in a way they can fully understand their responsibilities.
2. A massive library of potential hazards and their applicable control measures has been provided.
3. How will each person on site be informed and kept up to date (in their preferred language) with evolving risk assessments and control measures? With online access on their mobile phones.
4. Two kinds of Risk Assessment documents are in use as:
  (1). Hand crafted documents using 20 year old Office tools with traditional errors of ommission that are printed for each edition.
  (2). Computer generated documents with real-time updates and without errors of ommission that are shared by all involved parties.
Glossary:
HSE means "Health and Safety Executive" - see HSE.GOV.UK.
RIDDOR means "Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurances Regulations" - see HSE.GOV.UK.
HRA object glyph is "B24". Name is "Hazard".
HRA page range is "4410 to 4419".
Risk Rating is Level of Harm * Likelihood: Low is 1 to 3. Medium is 4 to 6. High is 7 to 9.
Level of Harm: 1. Low is slight injury. 2. Medium is serious off work for up to 3 days. 3. High is Major injury or death.
Liklihood: 1. Low is not forseeable. 2. Medium is frequently. 3. High is near certainty.
Colour: 1. Low is green. 2. Medium is amber. 3. High is red.
Toolbox Talk is an HSE term for a "Corrective Action Plan" (CAP) or Non-Conformance Notice (NCN).
Data Structure:
1. Risk: project and location identification with scope of job or people to whom the risk applies.
2. Hazard: (danger) who may be harmed; how they may be harmed with respect to a named risk.
3. Control Measure: what control measures are taken or deployed with respect to a named hazard.
4. Toolbox Talk: what additional control measures are needed, When, Who, Status (done) with respect to a names control measure.
Hierarchy:
1. Risk assessment is viewed as a top-down hirarchy from (1) Risk to many (2) Hazards each with many (3) Control measures.
2. Toolbox talk data is independent but should reference the applicable control measure.
3. Data can best be created bottom-up with each record identifying its one parent.
Risk Matrix:
1. No one risk matrix is correct for every project, however some degree of consistancy is recommended for any one project.
2. Risk is a number that is the severity number times the likelyhood number.   Where severity and likelyhood are numbers 1 to 3, then risk is numbers 1 to 9.   Where severity and likelyhood are numbers 1 to 5, then risk is numbers 1 to 25.
SIMPLE: (Red-Amber-Green)
3. A simple risk matrix may involve Level of Harm or severity as:
  (1) Low severity as slight injury as scratch or cut.
  (2) Medium severity as a serious injury with up to 3 days off work.
  (3) High severity as a major injury including incapacity or death.
4. A simple risk matrix may involve a possibility of likelyhood as:
  (1) Low possibility as very unlikely or unlikely or not forseeable.
  (2) Medium possibility as possible and will happen occationally.
  (3) High possibility as certain to happen.
5. A simple risk priority is severity times likelyhood as:
  (1-3) Low priority.
  (4-6) Medium priority.
  (7-9) High priority.
COMPLEX:
6. A complex risk matrix may involve Level of Harm or severity as:
  (1) Trivial severity as slight injury such as a scratch.
  (2) Minor severity as a minor injury such as a cut.
  (3) Off Work severity as a serious injury with 1 to 3 days off work.
  (4) Major severity as a serious injury with more than 3 days off work.
  (5) Incapacity severity as incapacity or death.
7. A complex risk matrix may involve a possibility of likelyhood as:
  (1) Very Unlikely and not forseeable.
  (2) Unlikely possibility.
  (3) Possible possibility and will happen occationally.
  (4) Probable possibility and will happen.
  (5) Certain possibility.
8. A complex risk priority is severity times likelyhood as:
  (1) Very low priority.
  (2-4) Low priority.
  (5-9) Medium priority.
  (10-12) High priority.
  (13-25) Urgent action needed.
Form:
1a. Project Name (Project)
1b. Project No (Project)
1c. Name of Client (Project)
1d. Work Location (Project)
2. Date of Risk Assessment
3. Hazard
4. Persons at risk
5. Consequence
6. Assessment Level of Harm (low, medium high)
7. Assessment Likelihood (low, medium high)
8. Assessment Risk Rating (6*7)
9. Control Measure List (10 * 128)
10. Residual Level of Harm (low, medium high)
11. Residual Likelihood (low, medium high)
12. Residual Risk Rating (10*11)
Hazard Pages:
4410. Hazard Guide (this page)
4414. Hazard Form (readonly)
4415. Hazard Sheet
4416. Hazard Form (new and change)
4417. Hazard Archive
4418. Hazard History
Data:
B41.01.08.INT. Primary Key
B41.03.08.INT. Project Key
B41.04.08.INT. HRA Key
B41.20.08.INT. Who Created ID
B41.21.08.INT. Date Created
B41.22.08.INT. Time Created
B41.23.08.INT. Assessment Level Of Harm
B41.24.08.INT. Assessment Likelihood
B41.25.08.INT. Assessment Risk Rating
B41.26.08.INT. Residual Level Of Harm
B41.27.08.INT. Residual Likelihood
B41.28.08.INT. Residual Risk Rating
B41.29.32.TXT. activity name
B41.30.64.TXT. Hazard name
B41.31.32.TXT. People
B41.32.64.TXT. Consequence
B41.40.08.INT. Control Measure 0
B41.41.08.INT. Control Measure 1
B41.42.08.INT. Control Measure 2
B41.43.08.INT. Control Measure 3
B41.44.08.INT. Control Measure 4
B41.45.08.INT. Control Measure 5
B41.46.08.INT. Control Measure 6
B41.47.08.INT. Control Measure 7
B41.48.08.INT. Control Measure 8
Control Measure:
ZB41.01.08.INT. Primary Key
ZB41.02.08.INT. Language ID
ZB41.03.32.TXT. Subject (noun verb)
ZB41.04.128.TXT. Control Measure (what to do)
Document Control:
1. Document Title: Risk Assessment Statement.
2. Description: Risk Assessment Statement.
3. Keywords: ITIL OHS, HSE, Risk Assessment Statement.
4. Reference: 161535.
5. Privacy: Public education service as a benefit to humanity.
6. Issued: 13 Feb 2017.
7. Edition: 2.2.