Detailed Risk Management Assessment a Precursor to Keeping Your Property and Employees Safe

1. 1 Detailed Risk Management Assessment a Precursor to Keeping Your Property and Employees Safe If you conduct a business then you know that you have to stay compliant with the numerous rules and regulations in place. One such regulation that you must comply with is the Health and Safety at Work Act. It specifies that employers or persons conducting business must identify risks and keep employees, visitors and contractors safe. Failure to do so results in hefty penalties and imprisonment. The best way to stay compliant and keep your property and employees safe is through a proper risk management assessment carried out by qualified risk assessors. Identifying risks The first step involved in risk management assessmentis to start with identification of risks. Risks may be categorized separately: •Risks inherent in the property such as presence of asbestos and structural elements •Risks created by putting up additional structural elements such as towers, scaffoldings, railings and steps •Risks that arise due to machinery and their functions as well as processes •Risks that are posed by chemicals and materials •Risks of electrical hazards and noise hazards Call in experts in property risk assessment to first find out specifics of risks in each of the above areas or others as may be applicable in your case. For instance, if you work with contractors then you must have associated risks quantifies and qualified. Your risk assessor helps to identify risks and to develop property risk management plan. https://www.acanz.co.nz/

2. 2 Risk management The detailed survey by the risk assessor is likely to show you details. There are risks about which you can do something. Then there are risks inherent in the property, process or situation that you cannot entirely remove so your risk management plan will try to mitigate or prevent any untoward incident with use of proper safeguards. For instance, your building may be old and it may have asbestos present in it. If it is a leased property there is nothing much you can do about removing asbestos unless the owner agrees to it. If he does not then you will want to assess risks and take suitable action to keep workers, contract labour and visitors safe. You may have scaffolding, railings and ladders. An assessment shows up likely risks based on which you can take suitable action to prevent accidents. Risk management assessment You may have a risk management plan in place and have implemented it but is it good enough? It is a good idea to get your existing management plan assessed for best practices and conformity with guidelines. You may be surprised as to how experts can pick holes in existing safety plans and tell you all the different things that can go wrong with the right risk management assessment. Listen to them and their recommendations to make risk management as foolproof as possible for 2020. Source: http://assesscontrol.over-blog.com/2019/12/detailed-risk-management-assessment-a-precursor-to-keeping- your-property-and-employees-safe.html Contact Details Name: Assess Control Assure NZ Address: 5 Tiri Place, Mt. Wellington Auckland, NZ 1060 Phone No: (027)27255946 Email: queries@acanz.co.nz Website: https://www.acanz.co.nz/ https://www.acanz.co.nz/