Principles of risk management
Risk management involves you, the employer, looking at the risks that arise in the workplace and then putting sensible health and safety measures in place to control them.
The major principle of risk management is to ensure that workers and the public are properly protected, with a focus on reducing real risks – both those which arise more often and those with serious consequences. It also ensures that those who create risks manage the real risks to lead to preventive actions. Risk management enables individuals to understand that as well as the right to protection, they also have to exercise responsibility
Risk assessment aims to help you assess health and safety risks.
A risk assessment is an important step in protecting your workers and your business, as well as complying with the law. It helps you focus on the risks that really matter in your workplace – the ones with the potential to cause harm. In many instances, straightforward measures can readily control risks, for example, ensuring spillages are cleaned up promptly so people do not slip. For most, that means simple and effective measures to ensure your most valuable asset – your workforce – is protected. The law does not expect you to eliminate all risk, but you are required to protect people as far as is ‘reasonably practicable’.
LMRA - Last minute risk assessment (Stop and Think) process for routine activity
Every day a Last Minute Risk Analysis (LMRA) needs to be executed. This means that potential hazards in the working situation are evaluated using a short checklist, prior to routine task execution. You consider: physical and metal preparedness, what could go wrong, risk to self or others, changes that could occur resulting in new risk, proper tools and equipment for the job.
Risk management involves you, the employer, looking at the risks that arise in the workplace and then putting sensible health and safety measures in place to control them.
The major principle of risk management is to ensure that workers and the public are properly protected, with a focus on reducing real risks – both those which arise more often and those with serious consequences. It also ensures that those who create risks manage the real risks to lead to preventive actions. Risk management enables individuals to understand that as well as the right to protection, they also have to exercise responsibility
Risk assessment aims to help you assess health and safety risks.
A risk assessment is an important step in protecting your workers and your business, as well as complying with the law. It helps you focus on the risks that really matter in your workplace – the ones with the potential to cause harm. In many instances, straightforward measures can readily control risks, for example, ensuring spillages are cleaned up promptly so people do not slip. For most, that means simple and effective measures to ensure your most valuable asset – your workforce – is protected. The law does not expect you to eliminate all risk, but you are required to protect people as far as is ‘reasonably practicable’.
LMRA - Last minute risk assessment (Stop and Think) process for routine activity
Every day a Last Minute Risk Analysis (LMRA) needs to be executed. This means that potential hazards in the working situation are evaluated using a short checklist, prior to routine task execution. You consider: physical and metal preparedness, what could go wrong, risk to self or others, changes that could occur resulting in new risk, proper tools and equipment for the job.
