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Hazards. Risk Control Process. Four Step Process 1. Identify Hazards . 2. Assess Risk (of Hazards). 3. Eliminate or Control. Monitor and Review. Definitions. HAZARD – Potential to cause harm!. Definitions. HAZARD – Potential to cause harm! - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Hazards
Risk Control ProcessFour Step Process
1. Identify Hazards.
2. Assess Risk (of Hazards).
3. Eliminate or Control.
4. Monitor and Review.
Definitions
• HAZARD – Potential to cause harm!
Definitions
• HAZARD – Potential to cause harm!
• RISK – An assessment of the likely hood of the event happening and
if it did the likely injury
WHS – Primary Duty
What is Reasonably Practicable?Defined by section 18 of the ACT
What is Reasonably Practicable?Defined by section 18 of the ACT
The likelihood of the hazard or the risk concerned occurring
• Plumber working a trench in a Road
– On a Busy Road say the M2
– In the front set back area of House
• HAZARD – Being Struck by out of control vehicle
• How Likely is the Hazard will occur?
What is Reasonably Practicable?Defined by section 18 of the ACT
The degree of harm that might result from the hazard or the risk,
• Plumber working a trench in a Road
– On a Busy Road say the M2
– In the middle of a Park
• HAZARD – Being Struck by out of control Vehicle/Bicycle
• How Likely is the Hazard will occur?
What is Reasonably Practicable?Defined by section 18 of the ACT
What the Person Knows, or reasonably ought to know, about the Hazard and Controlling it
• We will discuss this in more detail later but
• This is a consideration of the requirement that you
– Understand the RISK– Understand how to control
• Is it a Freak Event?
What is Reasonably Practicable?Defined by section 18 of the ACT
The AVAILABILITY and suitability of ways to eliminate the risk
• Availability of Controls
• Does not mean that if it is out of stock you don’t have to worry about it
The AVAILABILITY and suitability of ways to eliminate the risk
• Availability of Controls
• It means the consideration of What is available?
– Concrete Barriers
– Temporary Barriers
The availability and SUITABILITY of ways to eliminate the risk
• Suitability is an assessment of the Hierarchy of Controls
• Eliminate• Substitution• Isolate• Engineering• Administrative• PPE
The availability and SUITABILITY of ways to eliminate the risk
• Suitability is an assessment of the Hierarchy of Controls
• Eliminate• Substitution• Isolate - Barriers• Engineering• Administrative - Signs• PPE - High Viz, Helmets, Boots
What is Reasonably Practicable?Defined by section 18 of the ACT
COST
• Cost is the last consideration
COST
• Cost is the last consideration
• Risk = Outcome & Likely Hood
WHS – Primary Duty
More Specifically
More Specifically
What is a Hazard
• Potential to Cause Harm
• Is the potential of a “Risk to Health & Safety”
What is a Hazard
• Potential to Cause Harm
• Is the potential a “Risk to Health & Safety”
• Do you need to have an accident to be in breach
Positive Duty Law
• It is hard to identify sitting in the Air-conditioned Site Shed
More Specifically
Workcover v Clarendon Homes
• Trespassers (Children) accessed Site on weekend
• Fell down opening in floor for future stairwell
• Is the Builder liable for OHS prosecution
Workcover v Clarendon Homes
• Trespassers (Children) accessed Site on weekend
• Fell down opening in floor for future stairwell
• Is the Builder liable for OHS prosecution
Is there a Hazard Present ?
Who Health & Safety was at Risk?
Workcover v Clarendon Homes
• Trespassers (Children) accessed Site on weekend
• Fell down opening in floor for future stairwell
• Is the Builder liable for OHS prosecution
Who is or will be Exposed to the Hazard?
More Specifically
Reasonably Foresable – What does this mean?
Identifying Hazards – The Standard
• What is the Threshold?
• How well do you have to do it?– How Experienced are you!– How much do you know!
WHS REGS s34
• A duty holder, in managing risks to health and safety, must identify reasonably foreseeable hazards that could give rise to risks to health and safety.
NOTE – It does not qualify by• Ability• Age• Experience
Identify Hazards – The Standard
• Do You know everything about everything?
• Or to quote Donald Rumsfeld– There are Known Knowns– There are Known Unknowns”– There are Unknown Unknowns
– How does this fit into WHS & your working Environment
Identify Hazards – The Standard
• Do You know everything about everything?
• Or to quote Donald Rumsfeld– There are Known Knowns– There are Known Unknowns”– There are Unknown Unknowns
– How does this fit into WHS & your working Environment
Identify Hazards – The Standard
• Do You know everything about everything?
• Or to quote Donald Rumsfeld– There are Known Knowns– There are Known Unknowns”– There are Unknown Unknowns
– How does this fit into WHS & your working Environment
Is it Unknown to you but known to others
Identify Hazards – The Standard
• Do You know everything about everything?
• Or to quote Donald Rumsfeld– There are Known Knowns– There are Known Unknowns”– There are Unknown Unknowns
– How does this fit into WHS & your working Environment
Is it Unknown because you haven’t bothered to find out
This Sounds Like “Known Unknowns”
WHAT ABOUT THE BEGINNERImbree v McNeilly [2008] HCA 40• 27 - These reasons will show that the standard of care which the
driver (the first respondent) owed the passenger (the appellant) was the same as any other person driving a motor vehicle – to take reasonable care to avoid injury to others. The standard thus invoked is the standard of the “reasonable driver”. That standard is not to be further qualified, whether by reference to the holding of a licence to drive or by reference to the level of experience of the driver. (Cook v Cook should no longer be followed)……– (Cook v Cook is an old case that said “you had to cut the beginner
slack”)• 54 - Knowledge of inexperience can thus provide no sufficient
foundation for applying different standards of care
How do you Identifying Hazards
• Your Experience & Knowledge– I.e. “Known Knowns”
• Is this enough to discharge you duties
How do you Identifying Hazards
• Your Experience & Knowledge– I.e. “Known Knowns”
• Is this enough to discharge you duties
• How do you find out about the Known Unknowns
Worksafe WA
• Checklists• http://
www.commerce.wa.gov.au/worksafe/PDF/Checklists/index.htm.
• Codes of Practice• http://www.commerce.wa.gov.au/WorkSafe/P
DF/Codes_of_Practice/
Worksafe B.C
• British Columbia Canada Regulator
• http://www2.worksafebc.com/Portals/Construction/Home.asp
• Relevance to NSW
US Department of Labor
• http://www.osha.gov/pls/publications/publication.html
Hazard Identification - Machinery
• http://australia.cat.com/parts-and-service/maintenance-and-support
• http://www.makita.com.au/support/makita-safety
• http://www.flowcrete.com.au/Support.html
Hazard Identification - Machinery
• http://australia.cat.com/parts-and-service/maintenance-and-support
• http://www.makita.com.au/support/makita-safety
• http://www.flowcrete.com.au/Support.htmlThese must be read in conjunction with any NSW Law, Codes of Practice
Work Process – Hazard ID
• Master Electricians Association
• Master Plumbers Association
• Master Builders Association
• Elevated Work Platform Assoc
Regulators have Extensive Codes of Practices
Materials - Hazard
• LPG Gas
• Hydrochloric Acid
• Boral Stud Adhesive
DUTY TO CONSULT
Hazard Identification
• Checklists
• Safety Committee meetings
• Any others
• A TICK and FLICK wont cut it, you need notes.
Assessment 1
• Over the Next 4 weeks.
• Once a week conduct a Hazard Identification Inspection of your place
• Where are you going to get a checklist from
WHS DEFENSE
WHS DEFENCES
WHS Defences
• It is all about the
• Known Knowns
• A soothing thought
• YOU ARE UP AGAINST THE STATE who are good at finding the “UNKNOWN KNOWNS”
Risk Matrix
• Risk Matrix
• Risk Assessment Form
Assessment
• Over the Next 4 weeks.