Risk Assessments

Question 1

What are the 5 steps to risk assessment?

Answer 1

IPARR - I Protect And Risk Review

1. Identify hazards
2. Decide who may be harmed
3. Assess the risks and take action
4. Record the findings
5. Review the risk assessment

Question 2

What regulations state the requirement for risk assessments?

Answer 2

The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
The Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017

Question 3

Who is responsible for risk assessments?

Answer 3

Radiation Employer

Question 4

When should risk assessments be performed?

Answer 4

Prior to commencing work with ionising radiation

Question 5

What should be considered when performing a risk assessment?

Answer 5

Routine work and reasonably foreseeable incidents

Question 6

Who do risk assessments cover?

Answer 6

Employees and members of the public

Question 7

What does the radiation survey directly inform?

Answer 7

The risk assessment

Question 8

What does the risk assesment infrom?

Answer 8

The local rules

Question 9

What does the ACOP say should be in the risk assessment?

Answer 9

a) Nature of the radiation sources
b) Estimate of dose rates to which persons can be exposed
c) Likelihood of contamination arising and being spread
d) Results of any previous dosimetry (personal and environmental)
e) Advice from manufacturer or supplier about safe use & maintenance
f) Engineering control measures & design features already in place
g) Planned systems of work
h) Estimated levels of airborne and surface contamination
i) Effectiveness and suitability of personal protective equipment
j) Extent of unrestricted access to working areas where dose rates significant
k) Possible accident situations, likelihood and potential severity
l) Consequences of failure of control measures
m) Steps to prevent identified accident situations or limit their consequences