9 - Risk management & Health and Safety

Question 1

What is the work environment?

Answer 1

Answer:
Work environment includes the physical and psychological work environment.
Our duty of care applies wherever Police are working e.g. vehicles, custody areas, offices, peoples homes, courts and the street.
Health includes mental health not just physical injury or illness.

Question 2

how do we analyze risk? What risk matrix?

Answer 2

Answer:
We can use the police risk matrix and supporting criteria to assess the level of risk
Put controls in place and determine how effective these are

Question 3

What are the three reasons why you need to know about health and safety:

Answer 3

• legal– it’s the law
• ethical– looking after our people is the right thing to do
• Our Business– good health and safety is good business.

Question 4

There are five steps within the risk management process. What are they?

Answer 4

Establish CONTEXT, internal context or external context
IDENTIFY risk
ANALYSE risk
EVALUATE
Take ACTION

Question 5

What is a near miss?

Answer 5

Answer:
A near miss is an unplanned or unexpected event that occurs as a result of police work activities and under slightly different circumstances, could have resulted in harm to the person but it did not.

Question 6

On the risk assessment form there are three documents that help give each hazard a risk rating. What are those documents?
MCL

Answer 6

Answer:
The risk matrix
Risk consequence table
Risk likelihood table

Question 7

What are the four risk categories within Police?

COPS

Answer 7

• Corporate
• Operational
• Portfolio
• Strategic