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