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Risk
Management
By: Team Dilaw
What is Safety Risk
Mangement?
Safety risk management: the
identification,
analysis and elimination (and/or
mitigation to an
acceptable or tolerable level) of the
hazards, as
well as the subsequent risks, that
threaten the
viability of an organisation.
Identifying Safety
Hazards
A hazard is anything that could cause
harm, damage or injury, or have a
negative
consequence, such as bad weather,
mountainous
terrain, FOD, lack of emergency
equipment,
high workload/fatigue or use of alcohol
and
other drugs.
Identifying Safety
Hazards
There are several useful methods of
identifying hazards:
Brainstorming - small discussion groups meet
to generate ideas in a non-judgmental way
Formal review of standards, procedures
and systems
Staff surveys or questionnaires
One person standing back from the operation
and monitoring it critically and objectively
Internal or external safety assessments
Hazard reporting systems.
Identifying Safety
Hazards
Hazard identification generally involves
three steps:
1. Stating the generic hazard (hazard statement)
e.g. fatigue/high workload, bad weather
2. Identifying specific components of the
hazard e.g. errors because of fatigue
3. Identifying project-specific risk/s associated
with each hazard e.g. maintenance errors
resulting from fatigue, especially at times
of Circadian low (2am-6am), CFIT, fuel
exhaustion because of bad weather.
Suggested early warning
safety system:
1. Identify safety hazards across your
operations that could harm people,
equipment, property or the environment.
2. Rank the likelihood and severity of
these hazards
3. Identify the current defences/controls
in place to manage them
4. Evaluate the effectiveness of each
defence/control
5. Identify additional defences/controls
where required
6. Record/(and continue to monitor) all this
information in a hazard register.
Risk assessment and
mitigation
The term risk refers to the chance that
somebody
could be harmed by various hazards,
together
with an indication of how serious the harm
could be.