Example: Creating and completing simple risk assessments
To maintain worker and plant safety, Company ABC creates risk assessments. A risk assessment identifies the potential hazards at a plant, and evaluates the risks that are associated with those hazards. Some risk assessments can be quite complex. However, sometimes simple risk assessments save time and accomplish the objectives.
Background
Company ABC plans to use Maximo® Health, Safety and Environment Manager to create a preliminary risk assessment to ensure that potential hazards that are associated with working in a confined space are thoroughly identified. Company ABC adds review actions to the risk assessment to assess the hazards that are related to confined spaces at the work site. Workers in confined spaces face hazardous conditions that must be identified.
- Is there adequate lighting within the confined space?
- Is access to the confined space adequate and safe?
- Are there unobstructed pressure/vacuum relief vents?
- Are fire protection systems in place?
- What is the temperature within the confined space?
- Is protective equipment in good working order and appropriate for the confined space?
Brian, the Operations Manager, is responsible for the operational supervision and safety of the entire plant.
Before you begin
- In the Standard Actions application, create review actions for the questions that you have about the confined space for which you want responses. For each review action, you might add review items. For example, you can ask whether the temperature reading within the confined space exceeds the set limits. For this question, you can request a Yes or No response. If the response is Yes, then you can add a review item that requires the recording of the actual temperature within the confined space. For the question that relates to adequate lighting within the space, you can require a Yes or No response. To be used in another application, an action must be in Active status. You might also create a set of review actions that pertain to confined spaces. These review actions could be combined into a standard action group.
Step 1: Create a risk assessment record
In the Risk Assessment application, Brian creates a risk assessment record.
Step 2: Specify the actions for review
On the Hazard Review tab, Brian selects the review actions or the group of review actions that contain the questions that relate to the confined space. The actions may contain items that must be reviewed and that require responses for each item.
If necessary, Brian can assign someone to respond to the questions and to any associated review items. For the action about whether the temperature exceeds set limits, Brian assigns someone to record the temperature within the confined space. If the temperature of the confined space exceeds the recommended limits, the person who is assigned to the review item enters the temperature that was recorded, and notes that the temperature is excessively high.
When the review actions are indicated as completed, Brian verifies that all review actions were completed as required.
Step 3: Complete the hazard review
Brian reviews the actions to ensure that all actions are complete, and that all review items are answered. Based on the responses, Brian determines the level of risk. He decides whether the hazard review is sufficient or whether a more complex risk assessment needs to be done. Brian adds comments to the Hazard Summary area. Brian might also add comments that a follow up permit to work be created to test and to monitor the potentially hazardous conditions within the confined space. Brian changes the status of the risk assessment to Completed.