Hazards are captured within the evaluation phase of the risk assessment, enabling of this phase (clicking on the evaluation phase on the right side of the screen) allows hazards to be added at this level and consequences to be added to those hazards at a lower, more granular level.
1. Click on the Evaluation phase
Adding a Hazard
2. Click on the ‘+ Add’ button within the Hazards Summary section, this will allow you to input a hazard, the highest hierarchy of that risk
3. Type in the hazard within the available box
4. Click on the ‘Save’ button
Complete the above process (Adding a Hazard) as many times as is required for this risk
assessment.
After adding in your hazards and clicking the save button the ‘Assess’ button is enabled allowing you to add consequences to each hazard that’s been created.
Adding Consequences
1. Click on the ‘Assess’ button at the end of an inputted hazard
2. Under the Consequences section, click on the ‘Add’ button
3. Enter in a consequence to this hazard in the Consequence box
4. Enter in a mitigation to this hazard in the mitigation box (essentially what barriers are you implementing within the organisation to reduce this consequence from occurring)
5. Select a Main impact area from the ‘Main impact’ dropdown area (these can be configured per organisation and allow an organisation to state what area of the business this consequence could impact
6. Select a risk value for this consequence Current Risk (the risk as it stands without mitigation) and Planned Risk the risk score after mitigation actions have been put in place). These values are taken from the organisational risk matrix built within your site
Calculating the risk score
The severity and Likelihood score is calculated via either the standard risk matrix or a provided risk matrix to Centrik. Risk matrices are then linked through risk assessments and safety cases.
These use the ‘main impact’ areas to provide and display the correct areas of the risk matrix.
Severity – Clicking on the small severity box will display the severity for the main impact selected
7. Clicking on the selection that best describes the severity for this impact area will generate a severity score (the page needs to be in ‘Edit’ mode to select the appropriate level)
Likelihood
In the same way as selecting severity you can select the ‘likelihood’ in the same method.
8. Clicking on the ‘likelihood’ box for each consequence will display the associated likelihood for the associated risk matrix
Likelihood – Clicking on the small likelihood box will display the likelihood categories.
The combination of the severity and the likelihood will combine to produce a score.
Alternatively, if you are familiar with your risk matrix and the calibration for each impact area you can select directly from the risk matrix by selecting the larger box below the smaller severity and likelihood boxes.
Selecting the value from the risk matrix will lock in this selection.
9. After completing the ‘Current Risk’ areas complete the same for the ‘Planned Risk areas
10. Click on the ‘Save’ button when all areas have been completed
Alongside the ability to add actions to the overall risk assessment you can also add actions to individual hazards within a risk assessment (if required). As an example, if part of the mitigation for this risk is staff training, you might want to ensure that the training covers the areas of the hazard within the risk assessment.
11. Click on the ‘Add’ button within the Actions area
The Action should be completed in the same way as any other action within Centrik. An action title, Action owner and description of the action is required.
Upon clicking the ‘Save’ button the action is created; however it is placed in a state of On Hold, the reason for this is that depending on the level of risk associated with this risk assessment it may never be accepted and signed-off. Therefore, work could be completed that is not necessary hence the status given.
It is possible to Release this action if it forms part of your mitigation or needs to be completed prior to this risk assessment being signed-off. Simply clicking on the ‘Release’ button will make this action active. All On Hold actions are automatically released upon the risk assessment being signed-off
All actions are collated together in the summary of the evaluation page, as actions from hazards or as additional hazards.
Under the Current Assessment and Planned Assessment areas you are able to make a selection based on five options. Accept, Monitor, Secure, Improve or Stop. The ‘View Outcomes’ button displays the meanings for these selections. Select one of these from the dropdown for both the Current Assessment and the Planned Assessment, clicking on the ‘View Outcomes’ button displays these options.
12. Select the appropriate option within the Current and Planned assessment areas
13. Click on the ‘Save’ button
After all hazards have been assessed and actions created for hazards (if required) then the evaluation phase is complete