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How do companies handle risks (5 steps of risk management) (Step 2: Decide…
How do companies handle risks (5 steps of risk management)
Step 1: Identify the hazards.
classification of hazards:
1) Physical
lifting, awkward postures, slips and trips, noise, dust, machinery, computer equipment, etc.
2) Mental
excess workload, long hours, working with high-need clients, bullying
3) Chemical
cleaning fluids, aerosols
4) Biological
diseases faced by healthcare workers
Step 2: Decide who or what may be harmed and how
departments, parts of businesses
Identifying who is at risk starts with your organisation's own full- and part-time employees.
Employers must review work routines in all the different locations and situations where their staff are employed
Step 3: Evaluate the risks and decide on precautions
subset of risks to be managed
how likely it is that each hazard could cause harm
whether or not your employer should reduce the level of risk
Step 4: Record your findings and implement them
Action plans, avoidance, redundancy and mitigation
Assess status and closure of target risks, identify new risks
conduction of planed risk management
Record provides proof that the assessment was carried out, and is used as the basis for a later review of working practices
Step 5: Review your assessment and update if necessary
empirical and historic provments
ensure that agreed safe working practices continue to be applied
take account of any new working practices, new machinery or more demanding work targets