Risk Quantification Legend

Probability legend

Description / 1 (Low) / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 (High)
1. Work experience / 5 – 3 years / 3 – 1 year / 12 – 3 months / 3 – 1 month / 1 month – 1 day
2. No of staff exposed / 0 – 19% / 20 – 39% / 40 – 59% / 60 – 79% / 80 – 100%
3. Time of exposure (8 hr) / 0 – 19% / 20 – 39% / 40 – 59% / 60 – 79% / 80 – 100%
4. Frequency of task / Annually / 6 monthly / Monthly / Weekly / Daily
5. Probability of incident / Annually / 6 monthly / Monthly / Weekly / Daily

Consequence legend

Description / 1 (Low) / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 (High)
6. Staff incident / First aid/no injury / Medical treatment / Lost workday case/occupational disease / Fatality/multiple lost workday case / Multiple fatality
7. Financial loss / < R20 000 / R20 000 – R100 000 / R100 000–R500 000 / R500 000 – R5 m / > R5m
8. Customer incident / First aid/no injury / Medical treatment / Extended hospitalisation / Fatality / Multiple fatality
9. Public reaction / Individual complaint / Multiple complaint / Local government/media/investigation / Extended media attention / Closure of unit/imprisonment
10. Impact on environment / None / Contained spillage/release / Uncontained spillage/release / Legal violation / Prosecution/fine

Rating

High Risk: 30 – 50

Medium Risk:16 – 29

Low Risk: 5 - 15

Risk Quantification Criteria
CONSEQUENCE
Staff incident
  • Injury to staff by category of seriousness
Financial loss
  • Damage to equipment/vehicles
  • Medical costs
  • Loss of business
Customer incident
  • Disruption of service
  • Termination of service rendering
  • Low quality service
  • Patient/customer injury
Public reaction
  • Verbal complaint from patient/staff/visitors/legal department
  • Written complaint from patient/staff/visitors/legal department
  • Reprimand/fine from government department
  • Inspection, investigation from government department
  • Media coverage: newspaper, television
  • Action taken by government department due to legal non-compliance, imprisonment, closure of unit
Impact on environment
  • Near miss incident
  • Nuisance impact
  • Spillage having short-term impact
  • Spillage or other pollution having long-term impact
  • Pollution with reversible impact
  • Pollution requiring ground rehabilitation
  • Pollution resulting in irreversible damage
PROBABILITY
Work experience
  • The number of years employee/s had experience of performing specific task
No. of staff exposed
  • Number of staff performing task, % of total staff in department/unit/hospital
Time of exposure
  • Portion % of shift spent on performing task
No. of times done
  • Frequency of task being performed
Likelihood of incident
  • Possibility of incident happening, taking incident experience in specific unit, group of units and industry as a whole into account.
Example: Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment Process

SHEQ = Safety, Health, Environment, Quality

N/A/E =Normal work circumstances/Abnormal circumstances/Emergency situations

Company Name: Bobby Martin Clips Manufacturing
Area: / Maintenance workshop / Incident profile:
Workforce: / 6 permanent employees, 2 contract workers / Burn injury from handling hot component, arc eyes, back injury from handling heavy component
Business: / Maintenance of manufacturing equipment
Equipment: / Oxy-acetylene welding set
Probability / Probability / Consequence
Task / Task detail/steps / Hazard / Energy/activity / Risk /

SHEQ

/

N/A/E

/ 1. / 2. / 3. / 4. / 5. / Total / 6. / 7. / 8. / 9. / 10. / Total /

Rating

/ Risk Management
Welding / Position component for welding / Weight of component / Manual handling / Back injury / S / N / 2 / 4 / 4 / 5 / 4 / 19 / 3 / 2 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 8 / 27 / Medical emergency management
Mechanical assistance: lifting
Hand, feet cut injury / S / N / 2 / 4 / 4 / 5 / 4 / 19 / 2 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 6 / 25 / PPE: feet & hands
Medical emergency management
Musculo-skeletal impact lower back / H / N / 2 / 4 / 4 / 5 / 3 / 18 / 3 / 2 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 8 / 27 / Education: body posture
Medical surveillance: fitness
Mechanical assistance: lifting
Welding of component / Glare / Welding / Eye cornea damage / H / N / 2 / 4 / 4 / 5 / 2 / 17 / 3 / 3 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 9 / 26 / PPE: Eye & glare protection
Awareness & supervision
Arc eyes / S / N / 2 / 4 / 4 / 5 / 4 / 19 / 3 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 7 / 16 / PPE: Eye & glare protection
Medical emergency management
Oxygen / Welding / Fire, explosion / S / E / 2 / 4 / 4 / 5 / 3 / 18 / 5 / 5 / 4 / 4 / 3 / 21 / 39 / Training: gas safety
Inspection of welding equipment
Fire and medical emergency management
Acetylene / Welding / Fire, explosion / S / E / 2 / 4 / 4 / 5 / 3 / 18 / 5 / 5 / 4 / 4 / 3 / 21 / 39 / Training: gas safety
Inspection of welding equipment
Fire and medical emergency management
Heated component / Welding / Burn injury / S / N / 2 / 4 / 4 / 5 / 4 / 19 / 3 / 2 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 8 / 27 / Task training, works procedure, worker competency
Medial emergency management
Work position / Welding on floor level / Musculo-skeletal impact lower back, knees, feet / H / N / 2 / 4 / 4 / 5 / 4 / 19 / 3 / 3 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 9 / 27 / Education: body posture
Medical surveillance: fitness
Mechanical assistance: lifting
Welding fumes / Welding / Impact lungs: metal fume fever / occupational asthma / H / N / 2 / 4 / 4 / 5 / 3 / 18 / 4 / 3 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 10 / 28 / Training: risk and PPE
PPE: respirator
Medical surveillance: lung function testing, lung function questionnaire
Reporting: occupational disease
Air pollution / E / N / 2 / 4 / 4 / 5 / 2 / 17 / 1 / 3 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 10 / 27 / Extraction, scrubber system
Monitoring
Welding sparks / Welding / Burn injury / S / N / 2 / 4 / 4 / 5 / 4 / 19 / 2 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 6 / 25 / Works procedure, worker competency
PPE: gloves
Medial emergency management