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Profiling risk put at the heart of effective safety management
The HSE website pages covering health and safety management have been given a makeover putting ‘risk profiling’ at the heart of the process.
The new pages stress that every business has its own risk profile which forms “the starting point for determining the greatest health and safety issues to the organisation”.
Risk profiling
A risk profile examines the:
- nature and level of the threats faced by your organisation;
- likelihood of adverse effects occurring;
- level of disruption and costs associated with each type of risk; and
- effectiveness of controls in place to manage those risks.
The range of risks normally include quality, environmental, injury, ill health and property damage. Failings in one area will indicate failings in another e.g. poor service quality will have a health and safety dimension.
The pure health and safety risks generally range from low hazard high frequency to high hazard low frequency events that could destroy the business. These would merit being at the top of the risk profile priority.
The outcome of risk profiling will be:
- the right risks have been identified and prioritised for action;
- minor risks will not been given too much priority;
- the level of risk will be reduced to acceptability;
- paperwork and bureaucracy will be to the minimum necessary; and
- performance will be reviewed and lessons learned.