RISK MANAGEMENT
WORKING IN LOCATIONS
OFFSHORE
When offshore, or in a remote environment, you’ll have certain responsibilities to keep yourself safe and obligations of care for other workers, should any potential danger interfere. Knowing your risk management will help with this responsibility.
HSE GUIDANCE – 5 MAIN FACTORS
The HSE have recently introduced new guidance of how your workplace’s first aid provision should be considered. There are five main factors that help risk management and assessment to be followed…
1 Identify Hazards Working remotely requires vigilance of your environment and the potential hazards it may hold. Check for obvious hazards around the workplace and make a note of these; anything from trailing wires to over stacked shelves could affect the risk assessment, so it’s worth recording.
Manufacturers’ notes on equipment you’re using can identify true hazards so reading them and previous accident records will help you spot the more obscure hazards. Long term hazards like noise pollution or dust could be contributing factors, so consider the whole working environment.
2 Decide who might be harmed and how
Offshore, minimising the risk of injury will contain an accident, avoiding harm to people within the workplace. Consider everyone who may be in your workplace at any time, from cleaners and visitors to workers who are new to the environment, the potential injuries or health implications need to be identified.
3 Evaluate the risks and decide on precaution
REMOTE
When working remotely, there are risks that wouldn’t necessarily arise compared with working in an office environment. being isolated, and in some instances alone, can mean there are unintentional risks that could lead to potential accidents.
Once you’ve recognised all potential hazards, preventing or reducing them as ‘reasonably practicable’ is relatively uncomplicated. The best thing to do is to simply remove the hazard altogether.
As this won’t be possible in all cases, try controlling risks to minimise harm, for example: Re-arranging a badly stacked shelf and installing more storage, will avoid falling objects injuring staff.
Precautionary measures like wearing protective clothing where necessary and keeping your workspace free from hazardous objects, will avoid a mishap leading to any further harm. Always consider the safest way to implement something to avoid potential accidents. Low cost measures can help alert people of risks, for example; identifying a highly flammable working area with sign posts, encourages caution to be taken.
4 record findings and implement them Making people aware of the risks and precautions that have been put in place and writing them down for people to refer to (if there are more than 5 staff members) is good practice.
Excessive details aren’t required, but evidence of a thorough check is recommended. Planning all measures to be taken will help improve long term risk management and help prioritise when certain precautions should be put in place.
5 Review your
assessment and update if necessary With the ever changing nature of an offshore workplace; new staff, expanding facilities and new products, means new risks may arise. Be aware of these changing circumstances and assess the risks on a regular basis, follow your usual procedure for anything new.
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