Hazard Identification & Risk Assessment

By the end

What you'll build

• Break a job into steps and identify credible hazards at each step
• Rate risk with a consequence and likelihood matrix and defend the rating to someone who disagrees
• Distinguish controls that reduce likelihood from controls that reduce consequence, and select accordingly
• Identify the critical controls for a high-consequence hazard and state how each one is verified
• Write a risk assessment record that another person can follow and challenge
• Recognise when a task has changed enough to require a fresh assessment

Curriculum

What's inside

7 modules · 41 lessons

1. 01

   Framing the Assessment

   6 lessons
   • Scoping a Task So the Assessment Stays Honest
   • Job Steps Versus Job Descriptions
   • Who Belongs in the Room
   • Baseline, Issue-Based and Continuous Assessment
   • Using Past Incidents as Inputs
   • + 1 more lesson
2. 02

   Finding the Hazards

   6 lessons
   • Structured Prompts That Surface Hidden Hazards
   • Energy-Based Hazard Prompts
   • Walking the Task Instead of Imagining It
   • Interfaces: Where Two Crews Meet
   • Hazards That Only Appear on Night Shift
   • + 1 more lesson
3. 03

   Assessing the Risk

   6 lessons
   • Using a Risk Matrix Without Fooling Yourself
   • Consequence: Reasonable Worst Case, Not Worst Imaginable
   • Likelihood: Exposure, Frequency and Probability
   • Common Rating Biases and How to Push Back
   • Recording the Reasoning, Not Just the Score
   • + 1 more lesson
4. 04

   Choosing and Proving Controls

   6 lessons
   • Critical Controls and How They Are Verified
   • Preventive Versus Mitigating Controls
   • Control Effectiveness and Degradation Over Time
   • Bow-Tie Thinking for High-Consequence Hazards
   • Naming an Owner for Every Control
   • + 1 more lesson
5. 05

   Residual Risk and Sign-Off

   6 lessons
   • Deciding Whether Residual Risk Is Acceptable
   • Escalation Thresholds and Who Decides
   • Reasonably Practicable in Plain Terms
   • Documenting Assumptions and Limits
   • What a Reviewer Should Challenge
   • + 1 more lesson
6. 06

   Keeping Assessments Alive

   6 lessons
   • Triggers That Force a Re-Assessment
   • Change of Plant, People, Process or Place
   • Field Verification of Controls
   • Feeding Incident Findings Back In
   • Retiring and Archiving Superseded Assessments
   • + 1 more lesson
7. 07

   Practice and check

   5 lessons
   • Risk assessment words that get mixed upmatch pairs
   • Building an assessment that survives scrutinysequence order
   • Rating and reviewing honestlyfill blank
   • The assessment that no longer describes the jobscenario
   • Course quizquiz

The shape of it

How this course works