Go on the HSE Website and Click on Publications Then Five Steps to Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment

www.hse.gov.uk

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg163.pdf

Go on the HSE website and click on ‘publications’ then ‘Five steps to risk assessment’

in order to help you answer the following questions:

1. What is risk assessment?

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On the website, these are the definitions of hazard and risk

· Hazard is anything that can cause injury e.g. chemicals, electricity, working on a ladder, a drawer which is open etc;

· Risk is the chance, high, moderate or low, that anyone could get injured by these hazards or other ones, as well as a remark about how serious the injury could be.

2. List 5 potential hazards on the farm.

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3. The hazards’ risk can be identified as High (H), Moderate (M) or Low (L). In the following grid you can see a number of hazards. Assess their risk by explaining how they can be high risk and then low risk. Examples have already been made for you.

Hazard / Examples of how the hazard could be called high risk / Examples of how the hazard could be called low risk
PTO shaft / No safety guard. The engine still running when you are still working on the implement; no training. / Every safety guard in place; the engine turned off before starting work on the implement; the worker has received adequate training.
Slurry pit
Dosing cattle against worms in pens in a shed.
Spreading manure with a tractor and a muck spreader
Fencing
Changing a wheel on a vehicle

4. The following steps could be used in order to make a risk assessment. Place the following in the right order by putting 1, 2 or 3 in front of them.

……………. Assessing the risk (high, moderate or low)

……………. Taking safety measures

…………….. Look around for hazards

5. Why is there a need for every employer to conduct a risk assessment?

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6. Why should every worker know about and look at the finished risk assessment leaflet?

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7. If you were working on a farm and you had to do activities, which in your opinion were hazardous, what would you do? Tick the right answers:

a) Carry on and hope for the best

b) Ask your employer to carry out a risk assessment

c) Ask your employer for a copy of the risk assessment

d) Tell him you are not comfortable with the activities and ask him for

more training before carrying out the work.

e) Ask someone who has had more training to carry out the work instead

of you

8. As a worker you have many responsibilities. What are these? Tick the right ones.

a) Collaborate with your employer in order to improve health and safety

b) Cut corners

c) Wear personal protective equipment PPE when available

d) Pass on dangerous activities to someone else

e) Care about each other

f) Ask for personal protective equipment if they are unavailable

9. What would a risk assessment leaflet look like? You could print an example if you wish.

10. Now that you know little more about risk assessment, think about one activity you have recently carried out which had the potential to be very hazardous:

a) Explain why it could be a hazard.

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b) What steps could you have taken to ensure that the activity was being made safer?

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