Hazard Management

The following steps provide the basis for managing hazards in services. All these steps are commonly referred to as ‘risk assessment’. In this website, these four steps have been referred to as the ‘hazard management steps’.

1. What hazards exist in the workplace? (hazard and hazard source identification)
2. Is the danger associated with each hazard high, medium or low? (risk assessment to help prioritise which hazards need to be attended to first, to help determine how urgently the hazards need to be attended to, and as a comparison tool after introducing or changing controls to determine if the risk has been reduced)
3. What can be done to control these risks? (application of risk controls/measures/precautions/ defences; if practicable, try and eliminate the hazard source from the workplace)
4. How effective is the risk control that is implemented? (monitor or review effectiveness of risk controls)

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