Assignment | Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment

Instructions:

Textbook:
Manuele, F. A. (2014). Advanced safety management: Focusing on Z10 and serious injury prevention (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment Project

Be sure to read all of the instructions. There are two documents to be prepared and submitted.

1. Following steps 1-11 of the Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment Guide in the course textbook (pp. 171-174), develop a risk assessment for a serious workplace hazard with which you are familiar, or use Addendum D to Chapter 11 (pp. 202-206) to help you select a hazard.

2. Evaluate the hazard and its associated risks, and then complete the Hazard Analysis and Risk Analysis Project form is attached.

3. To complete the Initial Risk Assessment and Post Control Risk Assessment sections, use the following codes based on the Risk Assessment Matrix in Table 11.10 (p. 180) of the textbook:

SEVERITY:
1 – Catastrophic
2 – Critical
3 – Marginal
4 – Negligible

PROBABILITY (Likelihood of Occurrence):
A – Frequent
B – Probable
C – Occasional
D – Remote
E – Improbable

RISK CODE:
H – High
S – Serious
M – Medium
L – Low

All sections of the form must be completed. Note that the “Post Control Risk Assessment Measures” section reflects the risk assessment AFTER applying the additional control measures.

4. In a separate document of at least one page, explain the reasoning behind filling out each section of the form, and how would the control measures affect the assessment?

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Reason Behind Filling Out Each Section of the Form, And How Would the Control Measures Affect the Assessment?
The type of hazard was identified as mechanical since it is from a set up involving a lot of mechanical operations and handling of many machines. The risk was classified as critical since any injury emanating from machines or any electric related incident will result in catastrophic implications owing to the nature of the work being undertaken. How often the risk is likely to occur has been classified as occasional since the likelihood of the incidents happening can be occasioned by mostly mistakes made by employees or an…