e-Learning #2

HAZARD IDENTIFICATION,HAZARD ASSESSMENT,AND MAPPING

2. Risk Mapping tool is a useful tool to identify and show where are the safe places for children
and youth and the unsafe places in your village, neighborhood or town in the world you live in. It
is useful for further planning on how to reduce risks and to make communities more safe for girls
and boys. Here is the key steps on how to make risk map with your group; draw a map of your
community and used colored pens or post-it notes, used green color to places you feel safe and
relaxed, red for show dangerous or unsafe places, and orange for places that are sometimes safe.
When you have decided together about safe and dangerous places and made your risk map, put it
on the wall and share ideas about how it can help you in your peace building work. Decide
together on three (3) risk areas you most want to change. Be practical on what steps you could do
together to change each of these situations. Where, how, and with what actions can you start the
process of changing the risks. Lastly, make a plan of action, do it for each of these three risk
situations you want to change. This map can be helpful to you as individuals and as a group. This
risk map can continue to be useful as your peace building work progresses and as you change the
map.

Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer system design to manipulate, analyze and
present all types of geographical data. Idaho fish and Game uses the power of mapping to help
scientists visualize and analyze data to understand relationships, patterns and trends.

GIS for quick area assessment. In this video, it shows how Remote sensing (satellite image
analysis) and GIS can assist a company in the global evaluation of an area in order to make the
right investment choices.

Risk Assessment is a careful examination of what could cause harm to people in the workplace.
The five(5) steps of Risk Assessment are as follows : (1) Looking for hazards, (2) deciding who
might be harmed and how, (3) evaluating the risks and deciding whether the existing precautions
are adequate or whether more should be done, (4) recording your findings and (5) telling your
employees about them and reviewing your assessment and revising it if necessary. Following
these steps is important because we will never know when things are about to happen, that is
why we create things like risk assessment and such. Risk assessments are very important as they
formed an integral part of a good occupational health and safety management plan.

The last video will assist Prevention officers in understanding the definition of Risk Versus
Hazard and the method or steps to conduct a quantitative risk assessment. This is the given
equation: R= C x E x P and it used to calculate the risk score.

3. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is an exciting tool for mapping locations of animals. It
lets you look at many different sets of data in a way that provides a clearer picture of your
community's animals and their needs—and that helps you use resources more efficiently. Also,
GIS in conjunction with remote sensing and photogrammetry, can be used to identify hazards.
Seismic faults and flood prone areas can be identified by scientists using GIS to analyze satellite
image, aerial photos and field survey data. A very common use of GIS in risk assessment is in
the preparation of hazard maps. Hazard maps could be created to show earthquake, landslide,
flood or fire hazard. GIS can be used for the analysis to determine hazard zones in the map, as
well as in the output and printing of such maps.

Geological Information System is not just about displaying maps and information. The GIS can
also be use to locate dangerous places using the area's geological features and the population
count that is currently present.

4. The method highlighted in one of the videos in estimating hazard and risk assessment is the
Quantitative Risk Assessment. This method performed by calculating the following Risk score.
This is the equation R=C x E x P, R stands for Risk, C for Consequences, E for Exposure and P
for Probability.

5. There are five(5) steps are in risk assessment and these are: Looking for hazards, deciding who
might be harmed and how, evaluating the risks and deciding whether the existing precautions are
adequate or whether more should be done, recording your findings and telling your employees
about them and reviewing your assessment and revising it if necessary. Risk assessments are
very important as they formed an integral part of a good occupational health and safety
management plan. Finally, it is important to carry out a risk assessment because if someone gets
hurt and you haven’t carried one out they could possibly sue you for loads of money.
Doing risk assessment in the community, it will help you to recognize and control hazards in
your community, create awareness among individual and use it as a training tool, reduce incident
and to ensure the safety and health of people in the community