Risk Management / Health and Safety Flashcards
What is the work environment?
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.
In step four of the risk management process how do we evaluate risk?
Will use a risk rating which equals likelihood times consequence after you’ve taken into account the existing controls. We may decide to:
- ACT
- MONITOR
- ACCEPT, or
- Acknowledge effective management is ACHIEVED
In step three of the risk management process how do we analyse risk?
We can use the police risk matrix and supporting criteria to assess the level of risk and put controls in place and determine how effective these are
By understanding when we need to escalate risks that are outside of our control, What does that provide?
– ensures we are supported to carry out our roles
– enables us to have confidence in our BAU processes, and
– gives the executive assurance that risks across police are being managed effectively
In Step 1 of the risk management process explain internal (OPR) and external (SPLE) context?
Internal context are things within police that influence how we manage risk. Eg: objectives, policies, resources
External context are things outside police that affect our ability to manage risk. Eg: social ,political, legal environment
What is the act and section that provides the conditions for health and safety in the workplace?
What is the Primary duty of care?
Section 36 - The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
The primary responsibility for Police health and safety at work.
Police must ensure so far is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of
- Police employees constabulary and non-constabulary
- Any other workers and influences such as contractors and third parties including volunteer workers
- Other people who could be put at risk by your work for example detainees and the general public
There are five steps within the risk management process. What are they?
-Communicate and consult
- Establish context (internal and external)
- Identify risk
- Analyse risk
- Evaluate
- Take action
- Monitor and review
What are the three reasons why you need to know about health and safety
- 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
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 the person but it did not.
What is the definition of risk?
Any potential future uncertain event that may affect the achievement of our objectives
On the risk assessment form there are three documents that help give each hazard a risk rating. What are those documents?
- The risk matrix
- Risk consequence table
- Risk likelihood table
What are the four risk categories within Police?
- Corporate
- Operational
- Portfolio
- Strategic
