How do companies handle risks (5 steps of risk management)

Step 1: Identify the hazards.

Step 2: Decide who or what may be harmed and how

Step 3: Evaluate the risks and decide on precautions

Step 4: Record your findings and implement them

Step 5: Review your assessment and update if necessary

subset of risks to be managed

departments, parts of businesses

empirical and historic provments

Action plans, avoidance, redundancy and mitigation

Assess status and closure of target risks, identify new risks

conduction of planed risk management

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

  • 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

how likely it is that each hazard could cause harm

whether or not your employer should reduce the level of risk

Record provides proof that the assessment was carried out, and is used as the basis for a later review of working practices

  • ensure that agreed safe working practices continue to be applied
  • take account of any new working practices, new machinery or more demanding work targets