Risk Assessment

Qualitative Risk Assessment

How Risk Is Appraised?

In the estimation of risks, qualitative risk assessment is beneficial for any organization or institution as it delivers real-time benefits by prevention through a third eye, in simple few steps awareness and proactive thinking can reduce risks, employers can prevent incident break out.

 Every organization has an existing framework of conducting the risk assessment of the project and reviewing of the safety plan, is this plan continuously updating? are its adequacy and efficiency checks done on regular basis? you need to redo the assessment to ensure your provisions are in line with the new legislation & continuously evolving process plant. In addition, every time your business changes in terms of premises, business activity or process even staff, you should undertake a revision of the assessment.

Approach Summary

Our friendly advisory support & safety experts will help you to understand and comply with all the legal requirements, along with all other relevant national and international latest emerging legislation. Qualitative risk assessment is all about simplifying understanding of risk and hazard to ensure continuous engagement of stakeholders for efficient and establishing evolving sustainable work practice.

Risk assessment requires you to examine both your premises and your work practice to assess the risk they pose, it is an opportunity to examine how your business could be improved as in the important exercise of reducing or eliminating risk. Risk assessment gives an insight, that you may discover underused parts of your premises or work practice that can be reviewed, not only to ensure the safety of your staff but also potentially improve productivity too.

Why Risk Assessment?

A detailed risk assessment for both your premises and business practice is required to draw up safety policies and procedures best suited. It’s important to explore modern means of protection system in the industry making our processes, premises, operations, and workforce safer. Is detection system adequate, does the detection system positioned correctly, some very basic system sometimes give more proactive protection, each facility quantity and quantum of risk differ?

Like any risk assessment, the qualitative assessment begins with obtaining information on risk factors, followed by risk classification in terms like "acceptable" or "unacceptable" or classifications such as "low", "medium", "high". Once seen as a risk for assets with a high risk will take mitigation measures. These measures are based on a hierarchy of business activities and their associated risks.

The qualitative assessment does not require determining the likelihood of data, only estimates of potential losses. Some related items are discussed in this approach.

• Threats - what can go wrong or attack the system such as fires or fraud. They are present in any system.
• Vulnerabilities - make the system more prone to attacks or the attacks may have more success and greater impact. For example, if fire, the presence of flammable materials is a vulnerability.
• Controls - are counter-measures vulnerabilities and their effects may be manifested in the following forms:
• Preventive controls protect against vulnerabilities and attacks can cause failure or reduce their impact;
• Corrective controls reduce the effect of attacks;
• Detective controls discover attacks and trigger preventative or corrective controls. 

After identification, the risks can be grouped by importance and likely to occur and represented in a matrix.

Organizing Risk in Two Criterial

1. Level of Risk
2. Degree of Probability

Risk assessment involves: 

• Looking for the hazards;
• Deciding who might be harmed and how;
• Evaluating the risks and deciding whether the existing precautions are adequate or whether more should be done;
• Recording your findings and telling your employees about them; and
• Reviewing your assessment and revising it if necessary, for example:
• If the work changes significantly;
• If there is an accident; or
• When someone returns to work after sickness or injury, or suffers a change in their health, that could affect or be affected by their work.

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Informal Risk Assessment Techniques & Tools 

• Stop-Look-Analyze-Manage (SLAM)
• Job Safety Analysis (JSA)
• Workplace Risk Assessment and Control (WRAC)
• Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA)
• Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) and failure modes and effects and criticality analysis (FMECA)
• Fault / Logic Tree Analysis (FTA/LTA) and Event / Decision Tree Analysis (ETA/DTA)
• Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOP)
• Bow Tie Analysis (BTA)
• Structured “What-if” Technique (SWIFT)
• Business impact analysis (BIA)
• Root cause analysis (RCA)
• Cause-consequence analysis
• Cause-and-effect analysis
• Layers of protection analysis (LOPA)
• Safety integrity level (SIL)
• Decision tree analysis
• Reliability centered maintenance,
• Sneak analysis (SA) and sneak circuit analysis (SCI),
• Markov analysis,
• (HIRA) Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
• Hazardous Area Classification (HAC)

Regular update and perception analysis of collective data can enhance protection, response, institutional real time assessment, monitoring, and adaptation. Our Advisory Team & Associate partners have developed a digital system of OSH Management to assist the organization in achieving such goals.

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Fire Risk Assessment

Qualitative Fire Risk Assessment & Impact Assessment

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Every organization has an existing fire risk assessment done at the time of project and fire safety plan, is this plan continuously updating, is it adequacy and efficiency checks done on regular basis, you need to redo the assessment to ensure your provisions are in line with the new legislation & continuously evolving process plant. In addition, every time your business changes in terms of premises, business activity or even staff, you should undertake a revision of the assessment.

Fire risk assessment requires you to examine both your premises and your work practices to assess the fire risk they pose, it is an opportunity to examine how your business could be improved as in important exercise of reducing or eliminating risk. Fire risk assessment and impact assessment gives insight, you may discover under used parts of your premises, or work practices that can be reviewed, not only to ensure the safety of your staff, but also potentially improve productivity too.

Fire Safety Requirements

The Fire Safety Standards requires you, the business manager, to provide and manage:

·         Means of Escape

·         Signs and Notices

·         Emergency Lighting

·         Fire Alarm

·         Fire Extinguishers

·         Fire Doors and Compartments

Fire Risk Assessment

A detailed fire risk assessment for both your premises and business practices is required to draw up fire safety policies and procedures best suited. It’s important to explore modern means of protection system in the industry making our processes, premise, operations, and work force safer. Is detection system adequate, does the detection system positioned correctly, some very basic system sometime give more proactive protection, each facility quantity and quantum of risk differ.

With correctly evaluated economical blend of technology and science, protection level can be achieved, response time evaluation, reach path, evacuation path, access path, exit path are some commonly miscalculated measures of a safety plan.

Regular update and perception analysis of collective data can enhance protection, response, institutional real time assessment, monitoring and adaptation is possible HSE-RM Solution & Associate partners have developed digital system of OSH Management to assist organization in achieving such goals.

Fire Training

As the responsible person, you are also required to implement and keep records of:

·         Fire Procedures, including evacuation

·         Staff Training

·         Fire Drills

Simplify Selection & Practical Guide

Guidelines for how many? A person should not have to:

·         Travel more than 25 metres to get to a fire extinguisher.

·         Reach out more than two doors to get to an extinguisher.

·         Reach to different floor level to find an extinguisher.

How many is not always easy to gauge but, as a general rule, you will need one water-based extinguisher such as water, water additive (the best option for most) or foam (3 litre or bigger) for every 2000 square foot or 200 square metres of floor space. This is per floor.

Once you have a water-based one, you are likely to have electrical risks such as computers, retail lighting, fridges, machinery, servers, electric forklifts, etc. This will need a CO2 extinguisher and it makes sense to have a pairing of CO2 and water-based for every fire point. The 2kg is by far the more popular but the 5kg CO2 size would be better for server rooms, machinery, industrial, etc.  It is best not to have too many different types on the same premises if possible as this adds to confusion in a panic.

With upgrading technology and resource availability may it be management or protection level integration, system implementation organization like yours can be supported on both the fronts by our customized, tailored, and unique project capabilities.

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World Tuberculosis Day 24th March, 2017

President of India’s message on the eve of World Tuberculosis Day

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has called upon all stakeholders to redouble their efforts for an early achievement of the goal of TB elimination on the eve of World Tuberculosis Day.

In his message sent to the Global Coalition Against Tuberculosis, the President has said, “I am happy to learn that World Tuberculosis Day is being observed on 24th March, 2017 to commemorate the day in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch discovered the TB bacillus.

TB continues to be one of the major health challenges of India. The country today is better prepared to fight TB than ever before. It is capable of effective intervention and possesses advanced technologies for diagnosis, treatment, and care of TB. During the period 2012-2017, the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme screened over 42 million individuals and more than 7 million patients were administered treatment.

On the occasion of World Tuberculosis Day, I call upon all stakeholders to redouble their efforts for an early achievement of the goal of TB elimination”.

Ref.: Press Information Bureau Government of India President's Secretariat

World Tuberculosis Day 2017: Rise of multidrug-resistant TB threatens India 

India is also among the six countries that account for 60 percent of the total TB cases globally, a study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine said.

During the Union Budget address, last month, the government of India announced its plan to eliminate TB by 2025, however, experts say the programs initiated by the government have not been able to reach the marginalized sections.

"As per the standards of today, many changes have taken place. TB has been declared a modifiable disease and it is mandatory now for every physician and the hospitals including private ones to notify the disease to the district/state TB centers or authorities.

Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is an infectious, airborne disease that mainly affects your lungs. It is also one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide.

Caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the disease can be spread from person to person through the air when people with lung TB cough, sneeze, spit, laugh, speak, propelling the germs into the air.

But there are simple things which one can do to prevent and minimize the risk of developing the disease.

Here are some ways to prevent TB:

ü  One should avoid close contact with TB-infected people.

ü  If you cannot avoid contact with patients, wear a protective mask and gloves to avoid breathing in TB bacteria.

ü  People who are infected with the disease should maintain a proper personal hygiene.

ü  TB patients should sleep alone in a separate, adequately ventilated room.

ü  Regular exercise is a must for all TB patients as it boosts the immunity as well as improve their health.

ü  Tuberculosis patient should eat a healthy balanced diet with plenty of fruit, vegetables, whole grains to maintain their immune system.

ü  Get adequate sleep every night.

ü  If you test positive for latent TB, treat it before it becomes active.

Causes of TB

On World Tuberculosis Day, let's spare a thought as to how the changing lifestyle and stress lead to low immunity and leave people vulnerable to TB. Earlier, TB was tagged as a disease endemic to the lower strata of the society. However, the increase in the use of faulty air conditioners, lack of ventilation and other reasons have led to the spread of the airborne disease.

An increase in the number of bone TB cases especially youngsters have been noted, it is essential to provide timely treatment and proper medication. If not then the bone will start deforming and the patient may have to go for replacement surgery. Spine TB forms puss that can destroy the bones and add pressure to the nerves which can cause paralysis hence the need for timely diagnosis and treatment.

The government has organized various facilities and free treatment opportunities for TB patients, this is helping patients to detect the disease at an early stage itself. As TB spreads through the air, those with low immunity are at a greater risk of contracting TB. Youngsters these days are confined to their home/industry with various gadgets to entertain them. Those who prefer to sit in a closed room to work/study, As the ventilation is poor in confined areas, makes it the common way to catch TB infection."

"Timely diagnosis and early initiation of treatment will help patient to recover faster and prevent complications. It is no more the disease of the poor as we can see many teenagers from families with a good socioeconomic background also contracting it. Those with lower immunity caused due to improper food habits, long fasting gaps, inadequate sleep are prone to catch an infection

When a person develops active TB disease, the symptoms such as a cough, fever, night sweats, or weight loss may be mild for many months. This can lead to delays in seeking care and results in a transmission of the bacteria to others. People with active TB can infect 10–15 other people through close contact over the course of a year.

Who is at risk of getting TB?

 Tuberculosis mostly affects adults in their most productive years. However, all age groups are at risk. Over 95% of cases and deaths are in developing countries.

People who are infected with HIV are 20 to 30 times more likely to develop active TB. The risk of active TB is also greater in persons suffering from other conditions that impair the immune system.

Tobacco use greatly increases the risk of TB disease and death. More than 20% of TB cases worldwide are attributable to smoking.

Impact of TB

TB occurs in every part of the world. In 2015-16, 87% of new TB cases occurred in the 30 high TB burden countries. Six countries accounted for 60% of the new TB cases: India, Indonesia, China, Nigeria, Pakistan, and South Africa. Global progress depends on advances in TB prevention and cares in these countries.

Treatment

A radical draft National Strategic Plan (NSP) for Elimination of TB that proposes to bring down new tuberculosis (TB) infections by nearly 80% over the next eight years says India must expand the programme to the private sector, offer direct benefits transfer to patients, improve surveillance and monitoring of patients, and increase funding for the existing TB control programme. 

(Source: World Health Organization)