Workplace Hazard and Risk Assessment simply means looking at the work task and considering what is the safest way to complete it. It is a way of becoming aware of the hazards involved in doing the job and taking action to prevent an injury.

A well developed Hazard and Risk Assessment process is suitable for different tasks and industries, and does not require enormous amounts of time or use endless pieces of paper

PART A - You are to look at your current commercial kitchen facility (either in your workplace, or using your Training Organisations Commercial Kitchen), and consider an appropriate method to identify, report and record associated hazards and risks.This requires you to:

consult with workers or others to gain an appropriate level of understanding of what their job roles are (to help you identify possible hazards)

listen to any concerns or issues raised by others

consider the working environment

record the outcomes of your discussions and observations, and develop an appropriate Hazard and Risk assessment checklist

PART B - Using the hazard and risk assessment checklist developed in Part A, you are to undertake a comprehensive risk assessment of your workplace (or RTO):

Be sure to:

Document the activity: Assemble those involved in the activity and then, using the hazard and risk checklist, document the tasks that make up the activity, step by step. Be sure to consider any Safe Method Work Statements available, along with internal WHS Policy and Procedures

Identify the hazards: Next to each task, identify what part of the task may cause injury to those doing the work or to anyone else nearby.

PART C - Next, you are to consider the hazards and risks identified, and develop, select and implement appropriate WHS risk controls (within a risk register).

Be sure to:

Document the control measures: For each identified hazard, list the measures that need to be put in place to eliminate or minimise any likely risk of injury to those involved.You are to also indicate the cost associated with each control

Identify who is responsible: Document the name of the person responsible for implementing the control measure.

Implement the control measures.Ensure they are appropriate and adequate

Advise staff effected of the changes

Remember

The hazard and risk assessment provides a written record of the process to be used to proceed on a task. As it is a record that can be used in court, it should be signed off by the parties who have responsibility for the tasks.

The hazard and risk assessment is only a written record. Management processes must be in place to ensure workers have the skills to complete the job and that there is a required level of supervision to ensure the tasks are completed as documented.

Assessment Summary

You are to submit the following evidence / perform the following tasks

Your completed hazard and risk assessment

Your written risk register, updated SMWS and updated WHS Management system

Evidence of implementing your risk controls