Do you understand the process of identifying risks in the workplace?

1. Makrosafe Holdings

2. There are 3 basic types of Risk Assessments:
Baseline Risk Assessment
Issue-Based Risk Assessment
Continuous Risk Assessment
In order to find out how they stand with regard to health and safety risk, employers
need to ask these questions:
· What are the major risks?
· What are the immediate priorities?
· What is the existing risk control system?
The following needs to be kept in mind:
· This risk assessment must be comprehensive.
· It must provide the broad picture.
· It may lead to more in- depth risk assessments.
· It needs to be reviewed periodically.
This assessment is done whenever there is a change in the workplace, for example:
· New product to be manufactured.
· New procedure or system of work.
· Specific hazards to be assessed.
· After a near miss incident has occurred.
· New knowledge regarding a substance comes to light.
· New machinery.
This entails continuous monitoring of conditions in the workplace by means of audits,
inspections, pre-use checklists, task observations, etc. This is the most important
form of risk assessments and should mainly be conducted by supervisory staff.
Risk management, like many aspects of occupational health and safety is a team
effort and requires everyone employer and employee to come together to keep the
workplace risk free. To have an effective risk management culture means developing
a proactive approach in which people work together to identify potential problems
and remove them before any loss occurs. To implement risk management throughout
an organization, risk management programmes must be established at each level.

3. The risk management process is as follows:
1.
Communicate
And
Consult
2.
Establish
The
Context
3.
Identify
Risks
4.
Risk
Control
Plan
5.
Analyse
Risk
6.
Evaluate
Risk
7.
Treat
Risks
8.
Monitor
And
Review

4. Documentation and records
It is important that OHS risk management is adequately documented for the purpose of auditing. Documentation is necessary as good management
practice, because it is essential to communicate about risks and their control and in order to demonstrate due diligence in OHS risk management.
Documentation must be subject to control to ensure that it is:
· Current
· Readily available (those people who need to know its location must be able to find it)
· Regularly updated
Typical records may include:
· A risk management policy or risk management incorporated into the OHS
Policy.
· Documented responsibilities.
· A register of hazards and risks.
· A description of the methods used for identifying hazards.
· A description of methods by which risks were analysed and evaluated
(including assumptions made and the reasons why any risks were considered
negligible and accepted).
· Data from workplace or health monitoring.
· Rationale for the selection of a particular risk treatment strategy.
· Risk treatment plans detailing responsibilities, the schedule and the
mechanism of monitoring the risk treatment programme.
· Actions taken to treat risks.
· Safe operating procedures.
· Incident and injury registers.
· Inspection and audit documents.
· Results of audits and reviews

5. Our Vision
We believe in making sure your loved ones return home healthy safe after work, by understanding your
specific needs and tailoring a comprehensive Health and Safety solution, backed by qualified professionals
providing legal compliance, training, and management of incidents in the workplace.
Our Mission
Achieving significant growth by developing and continuously improving our capabilities and delivering
professional value-added services and solutions to clients through sustainable relationships and
departmental goals.
Our Core Values
Trust – Our clients do business with us because they trust us to implement safety programmes that assist and
guide them with information, systems, and procedures to ensure the companies’ greatest asset, their
employees, return home safe after work.
Care – We care deeply about the health and safety of your loved ones. We believe in making sure your loved
ones return home healthy and safe after work by implementing and maintaining health and safety
programmes in the workplace that ensure we look after and provide for your health and safety needs.
Passion – Our passion leads us to our purpose. We believe in making sure your loved ones return home safe
after work.