Moduke 9

Question 1

What is alarp?

Answer 1

A concept where risk should continue to be reduced until you reach a point where the cost and effort to reduce the risk further would be grossly disproportionate to the benefit achieved.

Question 2

What is a risk assessment?

Answer 2

• A fundamental decision-making tool to aid the management of safety generally
• An assessment carried out to identify the hazards within a building, procedure, or process which may have the potential to endanger life, cause harm or damage
• The process of establishing the level of risk.

Question 3

Factors affective perception of risk?

Answer 3

Frequency of events
•Media coverage
•Experience
•Confidence
•Beliefs
•Knowledge
•Fear
Note – Judgement will be affected by an individual’s perception of risk.

Question 4

Types of Risk Assessment?

Answer 4

Points schemes
•Narrative schemes
•Checklists
•Logic diagrams
•Algorithms
•Benchmarking.

Question 5

Point schemes are?

Answer 5

Points schemes are scoring systems which are capable of providing a numerical indication of the level of risk associated with a particular activity in a particular building
•The score achieved by a particular method can be compared with values from equivalent existing buildings, or to a standard.

Question 6

Narrative Risk Assessments?

Answer 6

Narrative risk assessments rely on the assessor following a number of instructional steps that require observations or actions.

Question 7

What is an FRA?

Answer 7

An organised and methodical look at your premises, the activities carried on there and the likelihood that a fire could start and cause harm to those in and around the premises (Fire safety, fire risk assessment: Offices and Shops, page 9)
•Life safety
•Property protection.

Question 8

Five Steps to Risk Assessment

Answer 8

Evaluate the situation

Select safe system of work

Evaluate the risks arising from the hazards & decide whether existing precautions are adequate or whether more should be done

Record your findings

Review your assessment from time to time & revise it as necessary.

Question 9

factors that affect perception of risk?

Answer 9

frequency  of events 
media coverage
experience
confidence 
beliefs
knowledge 
fear

Question 10

risk assessment checklist is?

Answer 10

Risk assessment checklists identify hazards & mitigating solutions and then require the assessor to answer questions relating to the hazards & solutions.

Question 11

risk assessment benchmarking is?

Answer 11

.. Benchmarking is a methodology where risks are compared against an accepted standard.

Question 12

five steps to a risk assessment ?

Answer 12

identify hazards
decide who may be at harm
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Question 13

what is in the RA 1 indent fire hazards ?

Answer 13

all potential ignition sources?
all potential fuel sources
all potential sources of oxygen

Question 14

FRA 2 , identify people at risk,

Answer 14

identify who is at risk?

identify why they are at risk?

Question 15

FRA 3,

Answer 15

Evaluate, remove, reduce and protect from risk
Evaluate the risk of a fire occurring
Evaluate the risk to people from fire
Remove or reduce fire hazards
Remove or reduce the risks to people
• Detection and warning
• Fire-fighting
• Escape routes
• Lighting
• Signs and notices

Question 16

whats to remove or reduce the risk to people?

Answer 16

fire detection?
FFE?
Escape routes are adequate?
lighting and emergency lighting adequate?

Question 17

FRA 4, record , plan, inform instruct and train

Answer 17

record significant findings
prepare emergency plan
inform and instruct relevant people, co-operate and co-ordinate with others
provide training

Question 18

FRA step 5, Review

Answer 18

Keep assessment under review

revise when/ where necessary

Question 19

What is suitable and surfactant?

Answer 19

record of the significant findings does not necessarily mean the assessment was suitable & sufficient.
If the record also includes workings to show how the significant findings were reached, together with an identification of the main sources of information and key facts and opinions considered, management (and the fire authority) is in a better position to judge whether it is suitable & sufficient.
MHSW Regs ACOP, page 6

Question 20

List key points if a fire risk assessment ?

Answer 20

Assume a fire WILL occur
•Assume the possible outcome is death
•A narrative fire risk assessment is the most appropriate method
•Although ‘tick box’ fire risk assessment checklists are a useful aide memoir they must have a narrative statement to support the findings
•Significant findings can be ‘over provision’ as well as ‘under provision’
•A fire risk assessment IS NOT a list of deficiencies.

Ensure the correct benchmark standard has been selected
•Life safety issues should be separate from property protection and clearly identified
•Ensure significant findings are fully detailed & well reasoned.