Eric Porter - Risk Assessment - Area Four Industries TV

In this video, Eric Porter dives into the essentials of risk assessment, a fundamental practice for ensuring workplace safety. Here’s what you’ll learn:

🔍 Why Risk Assessment?:

Legal Requirement: Mandatory in most European countries due to the EU employment directive.
Logical Sense: Reducing potential dangers to workers and others.
Accident Investigation: Importance of pre-considering risks to avoid unfavourable outcomes.
🏢 Employer Responsibilities:

Legal duty to ensure all work activities are risk assessed.
Responsibility may extend to anyone in charge of a team, not just those paying for the work.
⚠️ Identifying Hazards:

Focus on actual hazards like falling objects, personal falls, muscle strain, etc.
Hazards are graded on a scale of 1 to 5 (trivial to fatal).
📊 Risk Index:

Likelihood of each hazard is also graded (low to high).
Multiplying hazard and likelihood grades gives a risk index (1 to 25).
🛡️ Control Measures:

Identifying who is affected and for how long.
Implementing measures like wearing hardhats or excluding people from hazardous zones.
Upcoming video on the hierarchy of controls.
🔄 Regular Review:

Risk assessments must be reviewed regularly, post-accidents, when new techniques/technologies are introduced, or when legislation changes.
📉 Weaknesses:

Challenges of converting qualitative judgments into quantitative forms.
Importance of additional risk management exercises like method statements.

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