You should only use level 3 controls as a last resort, or in addition to other control measures. They include:. Risk management should be an ongoing process in your business and you should review your control measures regularly. Don't wait for something to go wrong. In some situations, work health and safety legislation requires you to review controls. These are:.
If you find problems, you should then work through the full risk management process to develop more effective ways to manage risk.
You should keep a written record of all your business's risk management decisions and activities. This will make future risk assessments simpler and easier. Use the Safety fundamentals toolkit to see how well you're doing.
From your results page, you can download an action plan as a Word document and change it to suit your business. Skip to content. What are my risk management responsibilities? Taking steps to manage risks is a condition of doing business in Queensland. This responsibility is covered by your primary duty of care in the Work Health and Safety Act How can I design a safer workplace?
For example, when designing your workplace, make sure: work flows smoothly and sequentially workstations are adjustable to suit workers of different sizes and capabilities people are physically separated from moving vehicles and dangerous equipment you plan for relocations, refurbishments or when introducing new engineering systems.
When designing tasks and processes, give your workers: manageable workloads reasonable hours appropriate duties — for example, avoid excessive manual handling or repetitive tasks enough time to comfortably complete their tasks. When should I manage risks? Triggers for risk management are: starting or buying a business changing work practices, procedures or the work environment buying new or used equipment using new substances planning to improve productivity or reduce costs responding to new information about workplace risks responding to workplace incidents even if they have caused no injury dealing with concerns raised by workers, health and safety representatives or others at the workplace as required by the Work Health and Safety Regulation for specific hazards.
How do I manage risks in my business? Four steps to managing risk Step 1. Identify hazards. The first step to manage risk in your business is to identify any hazards.
Common work hazards include: manual tasks with heavy loads or repetitive movements machinery or equipment with moving parts hazardous chemicals like acids or dusts hot or cold temperature extremes psychosocial hazards like work-related stress. How to identify hazards at work Put together a full list of all hazards in your place of work by: Inspecting your business Walk through your place of work, looking at the environment and work processes, like how workers are using equipment or chemicals.
You should also record any general housekeeping issues. These could be things like workplace bullying or shift work causing stress or fatigue. You could also use a confidential survey to identify problems that are less obvious, like workplace bullying. Reviewing available information Look at information from a range of sources to identify other hazards. Step 2. Assess the risk. When should I perform a risk assessment? How to assess risks at work For each hazard, work out: the severity of harm it could cause from discomfort to serious injury or death how likely that harm is to occur from certain to unlikely or rare what controls are already in place to reduce the risk of harm how urgently additional action needs to be taken.
Step 3. Control the risks. How to control risks at work Use the hierarchy of controls to help you decide how to eliminate and reduce risks in your place of work. These controls include: substituting the hazard for something safer, like replacing solvent-based paints with water-based ones isolating the hazard by physically separating people, like installing rails around exposed edges using engineering controls, like trolleys, hoists and safety switches.
Step 4. Reviewing controls. These are: when you become aware a control measure is not effectively controlling a risk before a change that might give rise to a new risk when you identify a new hazard or risk when consultation with workers indicates a review is needed after a health and safety representative requests a review. How do I review my business' control measures?
What sort of records should I keep? You should record: the types of hazards, the assessed risks and the chosen control methods including any hazard checklists and worksheets you've used how and when you implemented, monitored and reviewed the control measures the names of any people you consulted with records of training any plans for changes. How do I know if I'm managing safety effectively?
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