OHSE 004

Identifying hazards and managing risks

Prerequisities

Where Lobel Services Employees are required to attend a hire site ("the Site"), we will not commence work unless:

• • The party with whom we have contracted to provide our services ("the Principal") has provided us with a copy of the relevant parts of its workplace OHSE Management Plan (or equivalent);

  • We have undertaken an assessment of the risks associated with the proposed work activities at the Site and have provided to the Principal a written Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS); and

  • We have provided induction training to all of our employees.

Lobel Services undertakes to:

• • Maintain and update our SWMS, and provide the updated SWMS to the Principal.

  • Identify potential hazards associated with the proposed work activities, assess the risks involved and develop control measures to eliminate, or minimise, those risks. This risk management process is carried out in consultation with our employees.

Identifying hazards

To assist in identifying all potential hazards, Lobel Services breakdowns specific work activities into job steps. These work activities are detailed in a SWMS (which is a list of job steps and other work related practices).

For each of the work activities and associated job steps identified in the SWMS, we identify potential hazards and their associated risks.

To further assist in identifying hazards and risks, we adopt and deploy appropriate resources and processes such as codes and standards, industry publications (i.e. safety alerts; hazard profiles for specific trade groups), workplace experience and consultation (i.e. Toolbox Talks).

Managing risks

Lobel Services uses a Risk Matrix to rank risk by ranking potential workplace hazards as "1", "2" or "3".

The Risk Matrix is used to determine the level of danger or seriousness (i.e. the consequence) of the risk, how likely it is that this risk will occur (i.e. likelihood or probability) and therefore define the control measures that we will need to use to eliminate or minimise the risk.