Safety Risk Assessments
Serious injury or illness at work can occur in ANY industry and ANY occupation. Where an employer hasn’t acted on their obligations regarding WHS they become exposed to potential claims of negligence. This can result in penalties and even jail time in serious cases. A Risk Assessment will identify risks and place you and your business in the best position to avoid these negative consequences.
Learn more about what the safety regulator says about managing risks here.
What is involved?
A Risk Assessment identifies and evaluates risks in your workplace and then implements controls to either eliminate or reduce them. The completed Risk Assessment will help you to better understand your risk profile and take steps to ensure a safer workplace.
The image to the right is a representation of the processes required to manage risk effectively (reference the Model Code of Practice: How to manage WHS risks).
Some key points to take from this image are that managing risk is something that never stops, it is cyclic in nature and is a forever changing cycle that is required to be monitored for its effectiveness. Simply conducting a risk assessment once is not enough. Also note the outer circle with ‘consultation’ highlighted. This is representative that at all stages of the risk management process consultation with workers is required.
What benefits will a Risk Assessment provide for my business?
Having a Risk Assessment completed will:
- Provide insights into what risks are present and possible in your workplace
- Highlight what you should focus on immeditely and what is ongoing
- Enable you to look at safety more clearly in your business
- Allow you to focus on improving safety for workers and reduce the risk of injuries and illnesses in your workplace
- Help your business to reduce exposure to breaches of the WHS Act
- Save you time and money as having better health and safety practices will reduce injuries and incidents occurring
- Give you peace of mind that you are taking corrective action in such an important space.
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