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Taking too many unmanaged risks can be bad for your health
Strika OHS - systematic health and safety management.
Plan
What are we going to do?How will we do it?
Who will do it?
Do
Do what was planned
Check
Did everything happen the way we planned it?
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Act
How can we improve our performance?
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Identify your workers' skills
- We each offer special skills to the workplace - whatever your role. A responsible employer ensures its workers are trained and competent to do their tasks. Some people can be multi-skilled in the workplace:- * your boilermaker could be a skilled craftsman, and also a trained 1st Aider. * Your truck driver can also be your Chief Fire Officer. * The storeperson might be your hazardous chemicals expert Knowing each other's strengths provides confidence and purpose to your workforce and solid foundations of the business and to create an effective OHS management System.
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Define the task
- By clearly defining your work tasks, you can ensure you have the right people, with the appropriate level of expertise and the proper equipment that you need.
- Conducting a risk assessment provides the team with confidence that every risk and eventuality has been considered and the level of risk has been reduced to as low as practicable.
- When equipment isolation is needed, the often-complicated process can be carried out safely and nothing is overlooked.
- Part of the task consideration may include developing and practicing a rescue plan - in case other factors arise, including medical emergencies - planning for the unexpected.
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Review of the task
- When the work is completed, a debrief on how it was done will identify possible deficiencies and opportunities for improvement. All incident and hazard reports will be reviewed, causes and controls addressed.
- Anything that might have been overlooked or not considered as important, but in hindsight the team now know its importance will be discussed. These are often called 'Lessons Learned' reviews.
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Continual improvement
- By determining whether all of the expected outcomes were achieved, we can quickly identify gaps in our task performance.
- Through this process we are able to improve our activities for the next time the work is done. And reduce the opportunity for injury or ill health from our activities.