The Code describes the arrangements made by departments to ensure that the process is a practical one and includes managers and representative staff and students. The College Specialist Health and Safety Officers provide advice and guidance on legislative changes and good practice and, where necessary, provide expert advice to departments. The Safety Director is responsible for the adequacy of the College risk assessment arrangements including the proforma, check lists, registration forms, classification schemes etc. which support the College guidance. Departments should have in place effective arrangements for the risk assessment and the risk control of all their activities. Identifying hazards 2.
Information is essential to the process of identifying hazards and risk assessment.
HSE guidance 3. College policy and guidance 4. Hazards relating to each work activity should be identified, ignoring the trivial and concentrating on significant hazards which could result in serious harm or affect a number of people. The simplest hazards can be identified by observation and a walk around the workplace. In more complex cases, measurements such as air sampling or examining the methods of machine operation may be necessary to identify the presence of hazards from chemicals or machinery.