Chapter 9: Organisational risk management / health and safety in the workplace Flashcards
Risk Defined:
to understand risk we need to understand what our objectives are.
There will always be uncertainty about whether we will achieve our objectives. When managing risk we need to think about what could prevent or delay us from achieving these?
Risk, Threats and Hazards
A threat - person / offender
A hazard - geological fault
Risk - takes that information and information from many other sources then considers the unknown to make an assessment of overall risk.
Four types of risk and how they are managed
Strategic risk - may affect the achievement of strategic objectives spelt out in our business. The Executive leadership team oversees strategic risks.
Portfolio Risks - investment portfolios oversee risk related to delivery of portfolios programs or projects - once these become BAU any associated risk will pass to other parts of the business to manage.
Corporate Risks - May affect the achievement of cross organisational objectives (information management, resource management, recruiting) Police governance groups oversee this.
Operational Risks - May affect achievement of day to day operations. These may relate to planned objectives and deliverable at an operational level. The National Operations Steering Group oversees operational risks and the application of TENR.
The Risk management Process?
Communicate and Consult - occur throughout all stages of the risk management.
1.Establish Context -
Internal Context: managing things within police - policies knowledge and skill levels
External Context - outside Police (social, cultural and political)
2.Identify risk - Proactively identify the risks (BAU monitoring of operations to ID new risks)
3.Analyse Risk - level of risk we use the risk Matrix
Controls in place (SOP, Training supervision etc)
- Evaluate - Act, Monitor, Accept or Acknowledge effective management is achieved.
- take action - each district /group/programme or project is responsible for managing its own risks or escalating those it cannot manage on its own.
Monitor and Review
Three lines of defence in risk management
Everyone acts as the first line of defence
Second line of Defence - Districts, Service Centres and PNHQ
Third line of Defence - Assurance Group maintain a view of polices control environment.
Health and Safety - three reasons you need to know about it?
Legal - its the law
Ethical - looking after Our people is the right thing to do
Our Business - good health and safety is good for business
Health and Safety Work Act 2015
Primary H&S law and worksafe is NZ H&S regulator.
Health is mental and physical
S36 Primary Duty of Care
Police has the primary duty of care for staff at work. All employees
Deciding what is reasonably practicable ?
You must do what is reasonably practicable to ensure H&S of yourself and colleagues.
First - Consider what is possible in your circumstances to ensure H&S
Second - Of possible actions, consider what is reasonable to do in your circumstances
You need to achieve a result that provides the highest protection that is reasonably practicable in your circumstances.
Hierarchy of Controls H&S
From least effective to most effective -
PPE - protect worker with personal equipment
Administrative controls - change the way people work
Engineering Controls - isolate people from the hazard
Substitution - replace the hazard
Elimination - physically remove the hazard
What is a near miss?
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 a person but did not.
Includes damage to police property but NO people were injured.
Reviewing incidents and near misses
All incidents and near misses must be reviewed by a supervisor. Different to a criminal investigation.
Need to ID the root cause of an adverse event so they can be addressed in appropriate manner and preventative controls are put in place to prevent it occurring again.
When to notify worksafe?
every employer has a duty to notify certain events to worksafe to make sure workplaces aren’t excessively dangerous.
These include -
Being admitted to hospital (not for stitches or similar or treated as an out patient)
Serious head injuries
Loss of Consciousness
Only exemptions to the reporting requirement are for NZDF members deployed on active operations and some SIS/GCSB activities not for police.
