Risk Management: Hazard Identification & Risk Assessment

What you'll learn
The place of risk assessment in a health and safety management system and in our daily lives
The need and reason for carrying out risk assessment before doing any task
Identification of hazards in the workplace
Carry out complete risk assessment, i.e. (identification of severity and likelihood, and evaluate risk)
Identify the hierarchy of risk control / appropriate control techniques
Learn practically the making of a hazard risk assessment sheet from the scratch
Requirements
Be able to read and understand English
Have preliminary knowledge of Health & Safety
Understand the working on own organization or industry
Description
We are living in a world where we are facing hazards every day and everywhere, the moment you wake up and went to the washroom, start your car drive to work, and work at an office and then come back home, you will bump into thousands of hazards including from slipping and tripping at home or reckless drivers on roads or any of the others depending on the type of work you are involved in. When we look at the industry we can see many dangerous processes going on, there are machines with moving parts, high-temperature procedures, people working at height handling sharp equipment and working in underground tunnels and mines, they are facing many hazards which can cause them near misses, injuries and in extreme cases deaths. Thus there is a need for Hazard Identification & Risk Assessment (HIRA) techniques.Risk Assessment techniques must be understood in order for careful assessment of risk assessment if you are made...

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