The appropriate assessment of Hazards is essential to HWH delivering high-quality care to our clients to
protect them and
our carers/support workers
comply with the legislative requirements under the relevant NDIS and Aged Care Acts
manage HWH business risk and to
continuously improve our processes.
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;
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Download These metrics are based on the following Work Health & Safety risk matrix.
Incident Harm Risk Consequence Matrix
Download To this, we have attached a value to determine relative risk as follows;
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Download This is worked out in the Hazards Register as displayed in a subset of the register as follows;
