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DEFINING PROCESSES RISK PROFILING AND RISK ASSESSMENT –
DEFINITIONS AND PROCESSES Both risk profiling and risk assessment involve assessing risk. However, in health and safety, the term 'risk assessment' usually refers to a certain process, often focused on the risk arising from a specific workplace activity or process. The hazards, risks, and controls it considers tend to be more direct.
Risk profiling is a more high-level activity carried out at the business unit, division or branch level. Its output is intended to identify areas of high risk or undesirable
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How do risk assessment and risk profiling fit together? Hannah Li, Senior Lead (Innovation) at NEBOSH, brings together content from the NEBOSH pocket guide series to define risk assessment and risk profiling, looking at how they relate and explaining the processes needed to successfully apply them in your workplace and wider organisations.
exposure to risk that require senior leadership attention. These threats are considered in terms of the potential harm to people, disruption to the organisation and financial impacts, in order to determine where resources should be prioritised effectively.
So, a risk profile is a form of high-level risk assessment, but with the distinguishing feature that risk profiling considers and consolidates a range of threats and a range of risks, not just those related to health and safety.
To understand this in greater detail let’s revisit the NEBOSH definitions and then look at the risk assessment and risk profiling processes displayed right.
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