1. Risk Assessment Communication Challenges at the Organizational Level
Paul Esposito
President, STAR Consultants

2. STAR > Overview STAR has been in business since 1997
Safety Through Accountability and Recognition
STAR specialized is
Culture Improvements
Management Systems
Risk Assessments
Leading Metric’s
Strategic Planning
HSE Coaching
Paul Esposito is a CIH and CSP, with over 34 years of experience.
Mr. Esposito is a member of ASSE’s Risk Assessment Institute and a developer and presenter of their 40 Hour Risk Assessment Certificate Program.

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4. Outline Problems with Risk Communication
Getting a Handle on Incident Causal Data
Choosing a Risk Assessment Method
Performing the Risk Assessment with Worker Involvement
Defining Metrics to
involve management and workers and
drive accountability and recognition
Lessons Learned

5. Background An R&D facility, with over 3000 personnel and 8 departments
Incidence rates have been flat for a few years
Common practices have accepted risks
Incident analysis seldom identified causal factors and root causes. Causation seemed to be random.
Incident corrective actions were recorded and communicational but never closed.
Management was focused on measuring accidents, not prevention or risk reduction.

6. Risk Communication Problem
Ineffective hazard identification and risk analysis
One way communication (Training) was ineffective in motivating safe behaviors
Worker and
Management
Roles and responsibilities for communication were delegated – thus, came with no authority

7. Incident Causation Data
Three factors seem to be common
Ineffective Hazard identification and risk analysis
No accountability to close action plans from
Incident analysis or
Hazard analysis
No accountability metrics to measure conformance

8. Risk Assessment Model Hazard Checklist Hierarch of controls centric
Common language
Common process
Hierarch of controls centric
Risk reduction (residual risk) tied to type of control and its effectiveness
Critical to Safety (CTS) Definition
Focus of communication, inspections, conformance rate and accountability
Supervisor – performance
Worker – recognition

9. With Employee Involvement
Hazard Checklist?
With Employee Involvement
Does the presence of chemicals or substances pose a threat to the safety and health of the workers?
Is there an environment capable of producing an unwanted release of energy?
Could the employee overexert from pushing, pulling, bending, twisting, repetitive motion, vibration or lifting?
Is there potential for a person or object slipping, tripping, or falling due to gravity?
Instructor Notes: Prior to discussing the content of this slide, ask the participants to pull out their copy of the handout entitled “Hazard Categories”. Explain that one of the ways to determine whether or not a hazard exists is to simply ask a series of questions. If the answer to any of the questions is yes, then a hazard exists. The questions in the Hazard Category handout correspond to those on this slide and the next slide. (The words underlined on the slide correspond to the category on the handout.) As you walk participants through each of the questions on the slide, have them follow along on the handout as well as you lead them in a discussion of identifying the Hazard Category, Hazard Aspect and Definition for each of the questions.
Sources of hazard categories include OSHA Publication 3071, Job Hazard Analysis. In addition, the human error section comes from ISO Refer the participants to this reference document in the manuals/handouts.

10. Over 32 hazard aspects listed
Hazard Checklist
Over 32 hazard aspects listed
Is the workplace configured so that workers can be caught in, on, between equipment and that employee can strike an object?
Can an employee be struck by an object or be struck by a moving mechanical object?
Is the environment hazardous to safety and/or health?
Is the task designed to be either too complicated, too simple or contribute to human error?
Instructor Notes: Prior to discussing the content of this slide, ask the participants to pull out their copy of the handout entitled “Hazard Categories”. Explain that one of the ways to determine whether or not a hazard exists is to simply ask a series of questions. If the answer to any of the questions is yes, then a hazard exists. The questions in the Hazard Category handout correspond to those on this slide and the previous slide. (The words underlined on the slide correspond to the category on the handout.) As you walk participants through each of the questions on the slide, have them follow along on the handout as well as you lead them in a discussion of identifying the Hazard Category, Hazard Aspect and Definition for each of the questions.
Sources of hazard categories include OSHA Publication 3071, Job Hazard Analysis. In addition, the human error section comes from ISO Refer the participants to this reference document in the manuals/handouts.

11. Hierarchy of Control
Mitigation reduction factors quantified, based in part on ANSI B11.0

12. Critical To Safety CTS Control added to inspections
Initial high severity
Residual high risk
Control added to inspections
Conformance rate calculated by department
Used for performance assessment and recognition

13. Department Scorecard

14. Lessons Learned Communication needed Common language
Three way, closed loop
Metrics
Accountability
Recognition
Employee engagement was also key
Required a checklist and
semi-quantitative mitigation reduction strategy

15. Summary
ASSE has begun a 40 hour certificate program in Risk Assessment
First presentation will be at ASSE Seminarfest in February 2015
Thank You!!!
Paul Esposito, CIH, CSP