The aim of the risk assessment process is to evaluate hazards, then remove that hazard or minimize the level of its risk by adding control measures, as necessary. By doing so, you have created a safer and healthier workplace.

1. Presentation on
The Various Steps of Risk Assessment

2. Risk Assessment
Risk assessment is the identification of
hazards that could negatively impact an
organization's ability to conduct business.
A risk is the chance, high or low, that
somebody may be harmed by the hazard.
Risk assessment is the process of
evaluating risks to workers' safety and
health from workplace hazards.
what could cause injury or harm;
whether the hazards could be
eliminated & if not.

3. Risk Assessment
Risk assessment is a term used to describe the overall process or
method where you: Identify hazards and risk factors that have the
potential to cause harm (hazard identification). Determine
appropriate ways to eliminate the hazard, or control the risk when
the hazard cannot be eliminated (risk control).
The purpose of carrying out a risk assessment is to enable the
employer to take the measures necessary for the safety and
health protection of workers. These measures include:
• prevention of occupational risks;
• providing information to workers;
• providing training to workers;
• providing the organization and means to implement the
necessary measures.

4. Types of Risk Assessment
There are 2 types of risk assessment.
1. Individual risk assessment.
2. Systems risk assessment.

5. Individual Risk Assessment
• Individual judgements or assessments of risk may
be affected by psychological, ideological, religious
or otherwise subjective factors, which impact
rationality of the process.
• There is a tendency for individuals to be less
rational when risks and exposures concern
themselves as opposed to others.

6. Systems Risk Assessment
• Risk assessment can also be made on a much
larger "systems" scale, for example assessing the
risks of a nuclear power plant or a hurricane.
• Systems may be defined as linear and nonlinear,
where linear systems are predictable and relatively
easy to understand given a change in input, and
non-linear systems unpredictable when inputs are
changed.

7. 5 Steps of Risk Assessment

8. Step 1: Identifying
the hazardsWorkplace hazards can come in many
forms, such as physical, mental,
chemical, and biological, to name just
a few.
Hazards can be identified by using a
number of techniques. The HSE also
recommend looking at and
considering;
 Accident and ill-health records
 Non-routine operations
 Long-term hazards to health.

9. Step 2: Decide who might be harmed & How?
• Some workers have particular requirements, eg new and young
workers , migrant workers , new or expectant mothers and people
with disabilities may be at particular risk.
• Cleaners, visitors, contractors, maintenance workers etc, who may
not be in the venue all the time;
• Members of the public, if they could be hurt by your activities;
• To ask others if they can think of anyone may have missed. In each
case, to identify how they might be harmed, what type of injury or ill
health might occur.
• Home care supervisors must take due account of their client's
personal safety in the home, and ensure safe working and lifting
arrangements for their own home care staff.
• In a supermarket, hazards are found in the repetitive tasks

10. Step 3: Evaluate the risks and decide
on precautions
After carefully calculating each outcome, it’s time to evaluate
those outcomes.
• Are the outcomes important enough to care about them at all?
• Is it worth going for something that may or may not result in
success?
• What will you gain or lose in the best and worst case scenario?
Questions like these will help understand whether it is needed to
take corresponding action to answer the threats or not.

11. Step 4: Record your findings and
implement them
Putting the results of your risk assessment into practice
will make a difference when looking after people and your
fundraising event.
We do not expect a risk assessment to be perfect, but it
must be suitable and sufficient. you need to be able to
show that:
o A proper check was made;
o You can asked who might be affected;
o You deal with all the obvious significant hazards, taking
into account the number of people who could be involved;

12. Step 5: Review the risk assessment
 Ensure that agreed safe working practices continue to
be applied (e.g. that management's safety instructions
are respected by supervisors and line managers)
 Take account of any new working practices, new
machinery or more demanding work targets
 To ensure that the risk of staff being harmed by work-
related violence has not changed and that no further
control measures are needed
 It is recommended that risk assessments be reviewed
on an annual basis

13. Step 5: Review the risk assessment
There are various reasons to review your risk
assessment:
1) Scheduled Annual Review
2) Change in task
3) Improvements
4) Reports and complaints
5) Accidents and near misses
Review of risk assessments is about keeping things up-
to-date and responding to changes, so that you can
provide the most effective and relevant health and safety
provisions for your working environment

14. Necessity of Risk Assessment
 A qualitative or quantitative approach to determine the nature
and extent of disaster risk
 Risk assessment is the overall process of hazard identification,
risk analysis, and risk evaluation
 Risk assessments is the primary management tool in effective
risk management
 Risk assessment aim to avoid the generation of new risks,
improves resilience to the effects of natural events and
contributes to sustainable development.

15. The Main Purposes of Risk Assessments
 To identify health and safety hazards and evaluate the
risks presented within the workplace.
 To evaluate the effectiveness and suitability of existing control
measures.
 Determine appropriate ways to eliminate the hazard, or control
the risk when the hazard cannot be eliminated (risk control).
 To ensure additional controls (including procedural) are
implemented wherever the remaining risk is considered to be
anything other than low.
 To prioritise further resources if needed to ensure the above.

16. The Goal of Risk Assessments
1. What can happen and under what circumstances?
2. What are the possible consequences?
3. How likely are the possible consequences to occur?
4. Is the risk controlled effectively, or is further action
required?

17. The Key Importance of Risk Assessment
 Identify who may be at risk (e.g., employees, cleaners, visitors,
contractors, the public, etc.)
 Determine whether a control program is required for a
particular hazard.
 It not only consider the hazards exposure and vulnerability but
also society's capacity to protect itself from disasters
 Determine if existing control measures are adequate or if more
should be done.
 Prevent injuries or illnesses, especially when done at the
design or planning stage.

18. • Operating in default mood
• Limited resources
• There's no mechanism for addressing risk
holistically.
• Risk is silo in functional and business verticals .
Barriers of Risk Assessment:

19. Challenges of Risk Assessment :
• Lack of common definition of critical risk term.
• Cost Reduction.
• Non - formal & unstructured approach .
• Improving risk assessment and modelling .
• Data management.
• Lack of technical understanding of organization,
functions or process being risk assessed.

20. • Lack of involvement of critical risk
assessment.
• Developing risk metrics .
• Improving reporting .
• Complex and one time activity.

21. Risk Assessment Opportunities:
• Consistency in approaching risk assessment.
• Collaboration on key risk discussion.
• Reduce instance of negative surprise.
• Integrated response to multiple risk .
• Achieve security beyond compliance.
• Allign investment with objectives.

22. Conclusion :
The risk assessment process can not take part in
isolation, needs to be supported by a framework within the
operation.
The recent situation demands identification of
interdependence and interconnections between risk
observation.
Action plans should be created.
An effective tracking mechanism must be developed.