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Risk management

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

  Health & Safety: Risk management requirements

• 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.

  The Risk Assessment tool used by the University of Melbourne is ERMS (Enterprise Risk Management System). 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

  Risk Matrix and Definitions

• General Risk Assessment Form

  Risk assessment templates that can be used for activities without an associated hazard-specific assessment form (general risk assessments) include:

  • General risk assessment
  • Task risk analysis
  • Health and safety action plan
  • Standard operating procedure
• 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

• About Risk Registers

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

• University-wide Risk Register

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

  • University of Melbourne health and safety risk register
• Budget Division Risk Register

  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.

  Guidance

  • Health & Safety: Risk register form
  • Health & Safety: Risk register example biological laboratory
  • Health & Safety: Risk register example chemical laboratory
  • Health & Safety: Risk register example office
  • Health & Safety: Risk register example workshops