Risk assessment and management

You'll learn

• An overview of the risk management process, including identification, analysis, evaluation, treatment, recording, monitoring and review.

You'll be able to

• Understand the importance and application of risk management within your organisation.
• More confidently identify risks for your team and organisation.
• Contribute constructively to the risk management process.

Course outline

• Risk management process
• Risks defined
• Risk management
• Applying risk management
• Standards and legislation
• Benefits
• Reading
• Hazards
• Hazards defined
• Workplace hazards
• Hazards versus risks revisited
• Identifying hazards
• Types of hazards
• Hazard groups
• Identifying risks
• Immediate action materials
• Risk assessment
• Outcomes and controls
• Consequences and likelihood
• Rating risk
• Risk matrix
• Acceptability
• Action
• Hazard control
• How to control hazards
• Control combinations
• Hierarchy of control
• Elimination
• Substitution
• Engineering controls
• Administrative controls
• Personal protective equipment
• Implementing control measures
• Review risk treatment
• Review questions

AU$99