RISK ASSESSMENT

Risk assessment is a careful examination of what hazards could harm people, an evaluation of the likelihood of an accident and the severity of injury and the establishment of adequate measures to control the risk.

Risk assessment adopts the following model :-

• Identification of hazards
• Identification and consideration of persons affected including vulnerable and specific categories
• Evaluation of risk to decide whether current control measures are effective in controlling risk and whether additional control measures are necessary
• Recording of significant findings and recommendations
• Review of the risk assessment

A hierarchy of control is used in evaluating the effectiveness of control, which includes :-

• Technical control
• Procedural/Organisational control
• Behavioural control

JRL Consultancy Solutions will carry out General Risk Assessments in the following  : -

• Fire
• Workplace
• Access
• Working at Height
• Construction 
• Work Equipment and Machinery
• Electromagnetic 
• Noise
• Hand-arm vibration, whole body vibration
• Thermal Environment
• Lighting Environment
• Electrical
• Display Screen Equipment use
• Manual Handling
• Using Contractors
• Lone working
• Violence
• Personal protective equipment
• Stress
• Home working

JRL Consultancy Solutions are keen to respond to your needs and are happy to discuss Risk Assessments not on this list.

JRL Consultancy Solutions Ltd can also help clients with advice on Dynamic Risk Assessment.

Additionally JRL Consultancy Solutions can carry out Specialised Risk Assessments using a range of techniques including : -

• Hazard Operability Studies (HAZOPS)
• A Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) study is a structured and systematic examination of a planned or existing process or operation in order to identify and evaluate problems that may represent risks to personnel or equipment, or prevent efficient operation. The HAZOP technique was initially developed to analyse chemical process systems, but has later been extended to other types of systems and also to complex operations and to software systems. A HAZOP is a qualitative technique based on guide-words and is carried out by a multi-disciplinary team.
• Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
• Fault tree analysis (FTA) is a failure analysis in which an undesired state of a system is analysed using boolean logic to combine a series of lower-level events. This analysis method is mainly used in the field of safety engineering to quantitatively determine the probability of a safety hazard.
• Event Tree Analysis (ETA)
• A method of illustrating and analysing the relationships between a sequence of outcomes that may arise over time following an initiating event.
• Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• A failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), is a procedure in operations management for analysis of potential failure modes within a system for classification by severity or determination of the effect of failures on the system. It is widely used in manufacturing industries in various phases of the product life cycle and is now increasingly finding use in the service industry. Failure modes are any errors or defects in a process, design, or item, especially those that affect the customer, and can be potential or actual. Effects analysis refers to studying the consequences of those failures.