Organisational risk management and health and safety Flashcards
Describe the risk management process.
Communicate and consult
Establish context
Identify risks
Analyse risk impact
Evaluate risk
Take action
Monitor interview
How do we evaluate risk?
Once we know what our risks are what controls are in place to help prevent or manage them, and therefore what risk we are carrying, we must consider how comfortable we are with this information and what we need to take action on. Depending on the evaluation we may decide to
Act
Monitor
Except
Achieved
Monitoring and reviewing risk
After the risk evaluation, when we have decided to
Act
Monitor
Except or
Achieved
We must review the decision regularly
Describe the three lines of defence in risk management
Everyone in place is responsible for managing risk.
First line of defence = all police
Second line of defence = management processes and controls
Third line of defence = internal audit insurance
Why must we know about health and safety?
Legal. It’s the law.
Ethical. Looking after people was the right thing to do.
Our business. Good health and safety is good business
Section 36, primary duty of care.
Police has the primary duty of care. The primary responsibility for people’s health and safety at work. We must insure so far as is reasonably practicable to help the safety of all police employees, any contractors or third parties, and other people who could be put at risk by our work, for example detainees in the general public.
What does health include?
Health includes mental health, not just physical injury or illness.
What must you do to ensure the health and safety of yourself, your people and others? Use the term reasonably practicable.
Consider what is possible in your circumstances to ensure health and safety.
Of the possible actions, consider what is reasonable to do in your circumstances.
Consider how Likely is the risk and how severe is the harm that might result?
The greater the potential harm, the greater the action required. However even for risks that have a low likelihood of occurring measures must be put in place to eliminate the risk.
What do you know, or ought reasonably to know, about the hazard or risk in the ways of eliminating or minimising the risk?
You are expected to take all reasonably practicable steps to find out if there are any ways to eliminate or, if elimination is not possible, minimise the risk
What is the availability of the control measures, and how suitable are they for the specific risk ?
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 that there may still be risks even after implement control measures.
As a final step, what are the cost of the control measure and are the cost grossly disproportionate to the risk?
Just because something is possible to do, does it mean it is reasonably practicable in the circumstances. However, cost can only be used as a reason to not do something when it is grossly disproportionate to the risk.
Health and safety induction
What I must do
Everyone who joins police should be inducted into the workplace to ensure they know how to work safely, how to report incidents and hazards, and what to do in an emergency situation like a fire.
Reporting health and safety incidents or near misses
All incidents and near misses should be reported using my police by the person involved in the incident or near miss. If unable to complete the report, their supervisor should make the report on their behalf.
What is a near miss?
A near miss is an unplanned or unexpected event that occurs as a result of police work activities and could have resulted in harm to a person but did not. Includes damage to Police property where no one was harmed.
A near miss is an opportunity to prevent a future injury before someone is hurt.
