Health and safety risk management

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Health and safety risk management is a process where we do what we can to minimise the risks associated with health and safety hazards at our workplace. The aim is to ensure that no one is injured or hurt by a hazard at work.

Risk management is a systematic process that involves the following four steps:

identify the hazards
assess the risk
control the risks
monitor and review the safety measures.

There are many instances when a risk assessment should be done. For example, whenever:

a new hazard has been introduced (e.g. commissioning new equipment item)
an incident (including a near miss) has occurred
when a new activity involving significant risk is planned.

The department has several procedures that detail how risk management is to be undertaken for specific activities involving risk. These include: undertaking high risk curriculum activities, going on school excursions, using hazardous chemicals, and doing hazardous manual tasks.