Responsibility
As an employer, you’re required by law to protect your employees, and others, from harm.
Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, the minimum you must do is:
identify what could cause injury or illness in your business (hazards decide how likely it is that someone could be harmed and how seriously (the risk)
take action to eliminate the hazard, or if this isn’t possible, control the risk
This is Risk Management. To understand and manage the identified risks, you need a Risk Assessment
Risk management is the identification, evaluation, and prioritisation of risks followed by planned economical resources to minimize, monitor, and control the impact of unfortunate events or maximize the realization of opportunities
Risk analysis is a technique used to identify and assess factors that may jeopardize the success of a project or achieving a goal.
Risk assessment is the identification of possible hazardous events that may negatively impact on an individual, a process, an assets, and/or the environment; and the allocation of countermeasures to eliminate, reduce, of mitigate those events as far as is reasonably practicable.
Safe work practices are generally written methods (method statements) outlining how to perform a task with minimum risk to people, equipment, materials, environment, and processes. Sometimes called Safe job procedures they include according to there specific role are a series of steps that guide a worker through a task from start to finish in a chronological order.
Method statements, sometimes referred to as a safe work method statement or SWMS are workplace safety plans, based on Risk Assessments, and outlining the results of a Safe Working Practice.
Your GO.tago Practitioner will write these for you, on a company-wide or an individual project basis.
The Highway8 programme ensures they are always current
risk assessments
method statements
safe system of work
Identify hazards
Assess the risks
Control the risks
Record your findings
Review the controls
How do I do a risk assessment?
What should I include in my risk assessment?
When do I need to do a risk assessment?
Who should my risk assessment cover?
What do I need to record?
Is there a template I can use?
What does "reasonably practicable" mean?
What is a hierarchy of control?
Is risk assessment a legal requirement?
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Management responsibility is to provide
adequate instruction and training.
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