1. How to write a risk assessment
Follow the process observe
Consult
Promote/train
Supervise
Change review
Document - document

2. Objectives Discuss the law and responsibilities
Review the Risk Management process
Identifying hazards
Assessing the risk
Controlling and reviewing the risk
Basic paperwork for a risk assessment and how to fill it out

3. OHS Law Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000 Section 8
Employer “must ensure the health, safety and welfare at work of all employees”
Safe and without risks
Premises controlled by employer (exit/entry)
Plant or substances
Systems of work
Providing info, instruction, training
and supervision NB competent
Applies to others in the workplace

4. Employee Responsibilities
You must take reasonable care for the health and safety of your co-workers who may be affected by your actions :
ensure that your actions do not put others at risk
work safely
use and maintain machinery and equipment properly
ensure that your work area is free of hazards.

6. Employee responsibilities continued
Cooperating with your employer in anything that they do or require, in order to ensure a safe workplace:
notifying your supervisor of actual and potential hazards
wearing or using prescribed safety equipment
carrying out work in a safe manner
following health and safety instructions
taking notice of signs
participating in safety training.

7. Where does the HT sit?
Section 26 of the Act extends the occupational health and safety (OHS) responsibility of the employer to managers and supervisors.
Managers and supervisors are directly responsible for OHS within areas under their control.
Section 28 of the Act states that managers and supervisors will not be held responsible for OHS issues if they can prove that:
it was not reasonably practicable for them to comply with the provision
the offence was due to causes over which they had no control and it was impractical to make provision for.

8. OHS Regulations 2001 Provide the framework for Risk management
Consultation
Sharing information
Giving employees opportunity to express vies
View are valued and taken into account

9. Risk Management Step 1 Hazard Identification Step 2 Risk Assessment
Step 3 Risk Control
Step 4 Review Risk Control

10. Risk Assessments Related to the task or plant used
Often called a Job Safety Analysis or a Safe Work Method Statement for the whole activity
Is a system for documenting risk and control
Aims to reduce the risk through hierarchy of control
Must be communicated to staff and students
Key recommendations become the SOP

11. Hazard Identification
As a group
With people who know the task
Do it by observing the task
Get staff to review the risk assessment

12. 1.How SEVERELY could it hurt someone How ILL could it make someone?or
How ILL could it make someone?
2. How likely is to be that bad – what is the probability of it happening?
VERY LIKELY
Could happen any time
LIKELY
Could happen occasionally
UNLIKELY
Could happen very rarely
VERY
Probably never will happen A
KILL OR
PERMANENTLY
DISABLED 1 2 3 B
LONG TERM ILLNESS OR SERIOUS INJURY 4 C
LOST TIME INJURY 5 D
FIRST AID 6

13. Form Steps in Task Hazards Controls Carry material to machine
Manual handling hazard
Foot hazard
Use trolley
Team lift
Use boots
Prepare to cut
Guarding in place
Dust
Adjust guarding
Turn on extraction
Cutting
Noise
Swarf cuts
Use PPE
Clear area

17. How well is the solution working??
Evaluation & Review
How well is the solution working??
Ask staff
Change the risk assessment if you ID a problem
Communicate to staff and students
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