Chapter 9 - Organisational Risk Management/H&S

Question 1

What is risk defined as?

Answer 1

“effect of uncertainty on objectives.”

Question 2

What understanding do we need to escalate risks outside of our control?

Answer 2

• Ensures we are supported to carry out our roles
• Enables us to have confidence in our BAU process and
• Gives the executive assurance that risks across police are being managed effectively

Question 3

What are the four key risk categories in Police?

Answer 3

• Operational
• Corporate
• Portfolio
• Strategic

Question 4

Explain the five steps and two on-going process involved in the Risk Management process?

Answer 4

Two on-going processes:

• Communicate and consult
• Monitor and review

Five steps:

• Establish context
• Identify risk
• Analyse risk impact
• Evaluate risk
• Take action

Question 5

Establishing the context of risk includes understanding what?

Answer 5

• Internal context
  Things within Police that influence how we manage risk, Eg. your objectives, policies, and processes, resources, knowledge and skill levels
• External context
  Things outside Police that affect our ability to manage risk, Eg. social, cultural, political, legal environment as well as relationships with stakeholders

Question 6

Briefly explain the risk matrix?

Answer 6

By determining the likelihood and consequence of the risk, you are able to categorise and communicate its significance.

Likelihood: Almost certain, likely, possible, unlikely, rare

Consequence: Negligible, minor, moderate, major, severe

Question 7

Depending on the outcome, we may decide to do what four things?

Answer 7

• Act
• Monitor
• Accept, or
• Acknowledge that effective management is achieved

Question 8

Treatments of any future action for different risks should be based on what?

Answer 8

• Level of risk
• Assurance in the proposed treatments
• Relative costs and benefits of treatments/future action, and
• An on-going assessment of our internal and external context

Question 9

Explain the three lines of defence model?

Answer 9

1. All Police personnel, identify and discuss risks, applies to policy, procedures, process and standards
2. Management processes and controls (PNHQ, District, Service Centres)t
3. Internal audit and assurance (verifies or certifies that controls are operating as intended

Question 10

There are three reasons why you need to know about health and safety, what are these three reasons?

Answer 10

• Legal (its the law)
• Ethical (looking after out people is the right thing to do)
• Our Business (good health and safety is good business)

Question 11

What defines health?

Answer 11

HSWA defines health as being both physical and mental. Police must have effective systems for protecting people’s health, both physical and mental from work-related factors.

Question 12

Explain Section 36 - Primary duty of care?

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA)

Answer 12

The primary responsibility for people’s health and safety at work, must ensure as reasonably practicable, the health and safety of:

• Police employees - Constabulary and non-constabulary
• Any other workers it influences, contractors/third parties, volunteer workers, maintenance etc
• Other people who could be put at risk by our work, detainees and the general public

Question 13

What is the work environment?

Answer 13

Includes the physical and psychological work environment. Duty of care applies wherever Police are working. eg. vehicles, custody, offices, people’s homes, courts, and the street.

Health includes mental health, not just physical injury or illness.

Question 14

What does health and safety have to do with Our Business?

Answer 14

Health and safety are at the core of Our Business. Safest Country by ensuring everybody, both police and public are safe and feel safe. Our goal is to have safe homes, roads, communities and workplace.

Question 15

What is reasonably practicable?

Answer 15

You must do what is reasonably practicable to ensure the health and safety of yourself, your people and others.

Two parts:

1. Consider what is possible in your circumstances to ensure health and safety
2. Of the possible actions, consider what is reasonable to do in your circumstances.

Achieve a result that provides the highest protection

Question 16

What do you know, or ought to reasonably know, about the hazard or risk and the ways of eliminating or minimising the risk?

Answer 16

You are expected to take all reasonably practicable steps to find out if there are any ways (control measures) to eliminate, or if elimination is not possible, minimise risk.

Question 17

What is the availability of the control measures, and how suitable are they for the specific risk?

Answer 17

The way you eliminate or minimise risk will depend on the situation, type of work, work environment etc. You will need to apply your judgement to figure out the best actions to take. Be aware there may still be risks even after you implement control measures.

Question 18

What are the hierarchy of controls?

Answer 18

Elimination, Substitution, Engineering Controls, Administrative Controls, PPE

Question 19

Who is responsible for ensuring your team members have been inducted into the work area?

Answer 19

The supervisor of the team

Question 20

What is a near miss?

Answer 20

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. A near miss includes “loss only” incidents where damage was caused to Police property but no people were harmed. A near miss is an opportunity to prevent further injury before someone is hurt.

All near misses are reviewed by a supervisor