Hazards (WHS) - Potential Risk Assessment

Work Health and Safety risk assessments

The appropriate assessment of Hazards is essential to HWH delivering high-quality care to our clients to

Risk Assessment
In the context of Work Health & Safety, we require all identified hazards to be recorded so that we can take appropriate action to ameliorate the potential harm to clients and support workers.

Every person identifying a hazard must complete a Hazard (WHS) Report available as a Google form on any internet-connected device. Completing the FORM triggers a notification to the Staff Partner for preliminary assessment, which the CCMs further review in the Weekly Rounds meeting.

In the process of reporting, the reporter is required to assess the risk of the Hazard causing harm as follows;

These metrics are based on the following Work Health & Safety risk matrix.

To this, we have attached a value to determine relative risk as follows;

This is worked out in the Hazards Register as displayed in a subset of the register as follows;