Risk Assessment (EHS-IHS-RSK) 

Purpose

With this component you can document which agents (hazards or risks) occur in the various work areas of your enterprise.

You can analyze and assess the exposure situation according to defined methods, and if necessary order and track industrial hygiene and safety measures with protection goals.

You can check the effectiveness of the safety measures taken and make another overall assessment, meaning a value assignment after check.

If conditions change or the result is not satisfactory, you can make a follow-on assessment. This assigns a version to the existing risk assessment and the process can be performed again. Assigning a version means the historical data is retained and can be called again at any time with reference to a key date.

The following graphic shows an overview of the process described:

 

Integration

The following Industrial Hygiene and Safety (EHS-IHS) functions and components are linked together in risk assessment:

●     Pattern

For similar agents, it makes sense to assess only one work area or one activity and to use this assessment as a standard assessment for repeated use. For this you can use the pattern function.

●     Exposure profile

The exposure profile is still an option for entering and making rough assessments of agents in work areas.

Integration means you can now also use the exposure profile as the first step of a risk assessment (risk determination). From an entry in the exposure profile you can directly create a header record of a risk assessment. You can also open existing risk assessments.

To guarantee optimum interaction between the assessments in risk assessment and in the exposure profile, you can run a matchup with the data from risk assessment from either the exposure profile or risk assessment.

●     Measurement management (EHS-IHS-MEM)

See How Is Measurement Management Integrated in Industrial Hygiene and Safety?

●     Cross-application function questionnaire

In the questionnaire analysis method you can evaluate the questionnaires that were completed and closed in work area management.

See also: Use of Questionnaires and Checklists.

●     Reporting

You can use reporting for risk assessment to evaluate the system data according to various criteria. There is also an information function, for example, with which you can run search queries with variable search criteria.

See also:

Sample Scenario: Use of a New Substance or Material

Creation of Change Documents in Industrial Hygiene and Safety