Risk Management - Health & Safety

Question 1

What is Risk?

Answer 1

Effect of uncertainty on objectives

Question 2

4 Key Risk Categories (OCPS)

Answer 2

• Operational
• Corporate
• Portfolio
• Strategic

Question 3

Risk Management Process

Answer 3

1. Establish context
2. ID (risk)
3. Analyse (risk)
4. Evaluate (risk)
5. Take action

Question 4

Risk Management Process
1. Establish context

Answer 4

*Internal context - things within Police that influence how we manage risk.
*External context - outside Police that affect our ability to manage risk.

Question 5

Risk Management Process
2. Identify (risk)

Answer 5

• All responsible for identifying risk
• Consider potential risks
• Record risks, so it can be used later

Question 6

Risk Management Process
3. Analyse (risk)

Answer 6

• Level - of risk (use risk matrix)
• Controls - in place (to reduce the risk)

Question 7

Risk Management Process
4. Evaluate (risk)

Answer 7

• Act
• Monitor
• Accept, or
• Acknowledge effective management Achieved

Question 8

Risk Management Process
5. Take action

Answer 8

Need to act should reduce likelihood/consequences or uncertain event

Question 9

Risk Management
3 Lines of Defence

Answer 9

1. Everyone acts as first line to ID/discuss potential risks
2. Districts, Service Centre, and PNHQ work groups
3. Assurance Group & others assess and verify controls operating as intended

Question 10

Risk Management
How - examples

Answer 10

• Planning
• New initiatives
• Changing how we do things
• Changes in our operating environment
• Near misses, lessons learnt

Question 11

Health and Safety
Why?

Answer 11

• Legal - it’s the law
• Ethical - looking after our people is right thing to do
• Our Business - good H & S is good business

Question 12

Health definition

Answer 12

Health is both physical and mental.

Question 13

Sec.36 HSWA 2015
Police has primary duty of care for?

Answer 13

• Police employees
• Contractors, third parties e.g., SAR volunteers
• Detainees and public

Question 14

Health and Safety
Two parts to deciding what is Reasonably Practicable

Answer 14

1. What is POSSIBLE
2. What is REASONABLE

Note - are the costs of the control measure grossly disproportionate to the risk?

Question 15

Health and Safety
Hierarchy of Controls

Answer 15

1. Elimination - physically remove hazard
2. Substitution - replace the hazard
3. Engineering controls - isolate people from hazard
4. Administrative controls - change the way people work
5. PPE - protect workers with PPE

Question 16

What is a near miss?

Answer 16

• An unexpected event
• that could have resulted in harm but did not
• includes damage to Police property (where no injury)

Question 17

All incidents and near misses should be reported using?

Answer 17

My Police by the person involved
- if injured, by supervisor on their behalf

Question 18

What is the purpose of a workplace health and safety review?

Answer 18

To ID the cause of an event, so controls can be put in place to prevent happening again