Controlling Risks in the Workplace – Part 2

 

Controlling Risks in the Workplace – Part 1

PART 2 | HSE Interview Questions and Answers

TRENCHES & EXCAVATIONS SAFETY

Make a record of your significant findings – the hazards, how people might be harmed by them and what you have in place to control the risks. Any record produced should be simple and focused on controls. Apply hierarchy of control.

Any paperwork you produce should help you to communicate and manage the risks in the workplace. For most people this does not need to be a big exercise – just note the main points down about the significant risks and what you concluded.

An easy way to record your findings is to use our risk assessment template.

When writing down your results keep it simple, for example ‘fume from welding – local exhaust ventilation used and regularly checked’.

WORK AT HEIGHT SAFETY MOMENT

Where the nature of your work changes fairly frequently or the workplace changes and develops (eg a construction site), or where your workers move from site to site, your risk assessment may have to concentrate more on a broad range of risks that can be anticipated.

Always work for a completed risk assessment for your type of workplace.

You may use online risk assessment tools

If your risk assessment identifies a number of hazards, you need to put them in order of importance and address the most serious risks first.

Identify long-term solutions for the risks with the biggest consequences, as well as those risks most likely to cause accidents or ill health. You should also establish whether there are improvements that can be implemented quickly, even temporarily, until more reliable controls can be put in place.

Confined Space Entry Safety Procedure

Remember, the greater the hazard the more robust and reliable the measures to control the risk of an injury occurring will need to be.

Regularly review your risk assessment

Few workplaces stay the same. Sooner or later, you will bring in new equipment, substances and procedures that could lead to new hazards. So it makes sense to review what you are doing on an ongoing basis, look at your risk assessment again and ask yourself: Have there been any significant changes? Are there improvements you still need to make? Have your workers spotted a problem? Have you learnt anything from accidents or near misses? Make sure your risk assessment stays up to date and all the working team trained and understood the same.

 

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