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Risk registers, risk assessment methodology, ERMS and hazard-specific risk assessments.
Risk Assessment
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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.
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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.
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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.
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General risk assessment forms
Risk assessment templates that can be used for activities without an associated hazard-specific assessment form (general risk assessments) include:
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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 Confined Spaces Field Work First Aid - Refer: First Aid
Manual Handling Noise Office Ergonomics Plant Purchasing Radioactive Material Traffic Travel - Travel to high risk destinations risk assessment form
- Non Unitravel risk assessment form
- For other travel requirements visit Staff Hub
Risk Registers
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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.
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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
- Chemical risk assessment form
- Computer workstation self-assessment checklist
- Confined space identification and risk assessment form
- Field work risk assessment form
- Manual handling risk assessment form
- Noise hazard identification form
- Non UniTravel risk assessment form
- Plant risk assessment form
- Pre-purchase risk assessment checklist
- Radioactive material risk assessment form
- Sample laboratory notebook
- Traffic management risk assessment form
- Travel risk assessment form
- Travel to high risk destinations risk assessment form
Risk registers
- Health & Safety: University of Melbourne health and safety risk register
- 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
Guidance
- Health & Safety: Risk assessment methodology
- Risk Matrix and Definitions
- Completing a health and safety risk register
- Guide to chemical risk hierarchy of control
- Guide to the manual handling hierarchy of control
Processes
- Health & Safety - Develop a risk register
- Health & Safety - Undertake a risk assessment
- Health & Safety - Write a standard operating procedure