Help Files for OHS Online
You've created the initial risk assessment template but now you need to add the task data to it, to give it meaning. This is the next step in creating your risk assessment and you should be on the Risk Assessment Register page. Click on the risk assessment entry which now appears in your Register. It will open as follows:
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A good question! You will need to be in the Task Inventory page of your risk assessment to do this. Once there, you use the green 'Add Task Wizard' button to add a task from the OHS Online library. This opens the OHS Online function which allows a library task to be selected and added to your risk assessment:
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Okay, great question! Let's use an example to show you exactly what to do. In this case, let's choose the task of 'Using a Ladder'. The first thing we do is search for and locate the task, using the search function:
When the 'Next' button is clicked on, OHS Online opens the task and shows all the hazards associated with the task, as w View Full Answer
Ah yes, that's important! Before you can create your risk assessment there is information you will need to have in order to complete it. Let's take a moment to check a couple of things are in place:1/. Task Evaluation: Have you identified all the tasks in your business and have you evaluated what these tasks involve in order to determine the hazards associated with them? 2/. Risk A View Full Answer
Every journey starts with a first step. Your first step in creating your risk assessment is to click on the blue 'Add New Entry' button. This will open a new risk assessment template which you will use to create your risk assessment. You may notice that the page refers to it being a 'Task Inventory', which shows a revision number. This first part of your Task Inventory needs you to add View Full Answer
Another good question! You will need to be in the Task Inventory page of your risk assessment to do this. Once there, you use the red 'New Task' button to create a new task in OHS Online. This opens the OHS Online function which allows a new task to be created and added to your risk assessment:
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This is very important! Before you create a new task in OHS Online, it is important to make sure the task does not already exist in OHS Online. This is to avoid creating duplicate tasks in OHS Online, which would add unnecessary data to the database and possibly create confusion. View Full Answer
This is very straightforward to do! Let's use an example to show this. Let's say I want to add a task called, Using a Fixed Ladder to Access a Roof. Simply open a risk assessment to the Task Inventory page and click on the Add Task Wizard button, to open the task library:
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Great, you've created a new task, now you need to add the associated hazards and their risks! Okay, so click on the green Create a new Hazard and Risk button. This will provide you with access to two new fields where you can now add the first hazard and its associated risk for the task:
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Right-ho, no problems! Once you've created your new task, OHS Online places it in the task library. You will need to find the new task in the task library to add it to your risk assessment. Click on the green Add Task Wizard button, to open the task library and use the search function, entering the keyword of your new task to locate it. Once found, you can add this to your risk assessment. View Full Answer
Sure thing! Adding the mitigating control measures works slightly differently to the hazards and tasks but is also easy enough to do. In this case, click on the Control Measures drop-down option field:
When you select this, a drop-down will open which provides the full list of control measures for you to choose and select. A search fu View Full Answer
Yes, you can! If you look closely at each hazard and its associated risk, you'll see there is a red 'Rem Risk' button at the end of the risk row. Simply, click on this button to remove the particular risk (and hazard) from the task:
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That's a very good question! OHS Online quantifies an overall task according to 'worst case scenario', that is to say according to the most harmful hazard it has associated to it (the highest risk). If we look at the task we inserted, 'Using a Ladder', we can see that the Risk Rating of the task has been valued at 8 (Possible Risk). A lot of the hazards, associated to the task are View Full Answer
Ah, yes, quantifying risks! Now we start to get to the heart of the matter! Okay, so quantifying risks in OHS Online is very straightforward. You will need to open the task page which lists all the hazards associated with the task, as well as their associated risks. To the right of the risk description, you will find a series of boxes which contain values, defaulted to zero:
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A great question! There's also a really great answer to this too, one you're going to like! You don't have to! Yes, that's right, you don't have to because OHS Online does it for you! Isn't that cool! As you add tasks to the Task Inventory, OHS Online automatically places these in order of priority, from highest risk to lowest risk, so you can straight away see which are the most import View Full Answer
Ah, that's no problem, OHS Online has thought of that! If you look closely at each task in your task inventory, you'll see there is a red button at the end of the task row. Simply, click on this button to remove the particular task from your task inventory:
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