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Risk registers, risk assessment methodology, ERMS and hazard-specific risk assessments.

Risk Assessment

What is risk assessment
Risk assessment is the process of:
- determining the hazards to health and safety that exist for a particular task, item or work environment;
- determining the importance of each hazard by assigning it a risk rating or risk score;
- formulating risk control measures that are reasonably practicable to apply, that will reduce the risk rating/score to an acceptable level;
- documenting all these matters, usually on a risk assessment form
Further information is available in the Health & Safety: Risk management requirements document.
Methodology

The Health & Safety: Risk assessment methodology describes the methodology for completing risk assessments, using the University of Melbourne’s risk assessment systems and processes. It explains both the current software application and the hard copy application.
Health & Safety: Risk matrix and definitions provides guidance on how to select the likelihood and consequence when rating a risk assessment.
ERMS (Enterprise Risk Management System)

The Risk Assessment tool used by the University of Melbourne is the ERMS (Enterprise Risk Management System) WHS Risk Register module. Anyone with a University username and password can access the online system. The risk assessment forms listed below and available for anyone without ERMS access.
General risk assessment forms
Risk assessment templates that can be used for activities without an associated hazard-specific assessment form (general risk assessments) include:

Hazard-specific risk assessment forms

Hazard-specific risk assessment forms have been created to provide guidance to assessing many common hazard categories. These forms provide prompts about the hazards typically encountered during a specific activity.

Note: for a full listing, search for "risk assessment" in the "search all" section on the Processes, policies and forms page.

Topic	Risk Assessment Form
Chemical	Chemical risk assessment form Guide to chemical risk hierarchy of control Sample laboratory notebook
Confined Spaces	Confined space identification and risk assessment form
Field Work	Field work risk assessment form
First Aid	Refer: First Aid
Manual Handling	Manual handling risk assessment form Guide to the manual handling hierarchy of control
Noise	Noise hazard identification form
Office Ergonomics	Computer workstation self-assessment checklist
Plant	Plant risk assessment form
Purchasing	Pre-purchase risk assessment checklist
Radioactive Material	Radioactive material risk assessment form
Traffic	Traffic management risk assessment form
Travel	Travel to high risk destinations risk assessment form Non Unitravel risk assessment form For other travel requirements visit Staff Hub

Risk Registers

University-wide

The University of Melbourne health and safety risk register captures and quantifies the health and safety hazards and risks present throughout the University of Melbourne.
The University-wide risk register is indexed by hazard category, for example chemical, manual handling, noise.
Budget Division

Each budget division needs to establish and maintain its own OHS risk register, incorporating risks identified from local risk assessments and from the University-wide register.
A budget division risk register should be indexed by activity as opposed to the University-wide register which is indexed by hazard category.
Completing a health and safety risk register is designed to assist in developing a risk register from the University risk register form. The examples listed below have also been developed to assist in this process.
Risk register examples

Forms

General forms

Hazard specific forms

Risk registers

Guidance

Processes

Requirements

Health & Safety: Risk management requirements