The risk assessment document summarizes potential risks to students filming and taking photos on campus. It identifies hazards such as students tripping, getting too cold outside, or dropping their camera. The worst potential outcomes are minor to major injuries. Existing controls include painted areas around stairs and camera neck straps. Further actions planned are placing additional signs by uneven ground and having staff accompany students when using cameras.

1. STUDENT RISK ASSESSMENT
Date: 06/01/14
Location: Media Studies
Task being assessed: Students filming/taking photos in college
Student Name: Jack Thompson
Persons
at risk
*1
St
General Risk assessment
DEGREE OF RISK
Worst
Probability
Risk
outcome
Rating
*2
*3
A-E
Min - Maj Ps
The student may get too cold
while outside resulting in
hyperthermia.
St
Min - Maj
Ps
Aren’t any
Make sure they have a decent
number of layers of clothing
when leaving the building
Student could trip with camera in
hand and get cut by the lens
St
Min - F
Ps - R
Only advised to be careful
Have staff travel with the
student when using the camera
to make sure they are using it
appropriately
Could drop the camera when
using or walking with it
St
NR - Min
Pr - Ps
Camera provides a neck strap but is
not compulsory
Make the neck strap
compulsory
HAZARDS
Hazard
Regardless of control measures
Students could trip over resulting
in injury
CONTROL MEASURES
Existing control measures taken
against the risk
Yellow paint around areas such as
stairs
ACTION PLAN
What further control
measures are required when
and by whom
Place obvious signs or brightly
coloured paint to show the
abnormalities in the elevation
of the ground

2. *1
Sf = staff
St = students
Cr = contractors
Cl = cleaners
V = visitors
D = people with disabilities
X = young/inexperienced
L = lone workers
W = women of child-bearing
age
*2 This is without control measures
F = fatal
Maj = major injury or permanent disability
Min = minor injury
NR = non-reportable
*3 This is with control measures in place
Fr = frequent/likely/could occur repeatedly/expected
Pr = probable/not surprised/might occur often
Ps = possible/could occur sometime
R = remote/unlikely but conceivable
U = unlikely/improbable such that likelihood is almost zero