Define Health and Safety control measures
Define effective control measures to eliminate or minimize the risks associated with each workplace hazard to help prevent workplace accidents and injuries. Maintain a list of all the controls in place in your organization for every type of job and the associated risks.
Before you begin
Role required: sn_hs_rm.risk_manager or sn_hs_rm.risk_data_manager
About this task
- Review and update your list of control measures regularly to ensure its continued effectiveness.
Risk assessment manager can also create a control measure during the hazard assessment for a risk assessment. If a control is not available in the Available Control Measures field, they can select Create new control to define and use a new control.
For more information, see Assess safety hazards and risk levels for a risk analysis.
Procedure
Navigate to Workspaces > Health and Safety Workspace.
Select the configuration icon (
Configuration icon\).
In the Configuration tab, select control measures and then All.
Create a control or modify an existing one.
- To create a control, select New.
- To review an existing control, open the one that you want to configure.
- On the form, fill in the fields.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Control measure category | Category under which this control measure is organized. The list in this field displays items from the Hierarchy of controls \[sn\_hs\_rm\_hierarchy\_of\_controls\] table.For more information on control measure categories, see Create a safety control measure category. |
| Job location | Job or task location where this control measure should be applied for a risk. |
| Active | Option to mark this control measure available for use. A control measure must be active to be used. |
Select Save.
Add all control measures that are possible for a risk.
Result
- The control measure is listed in the Control measures list under Configuration and is saved in the Control measure [sn_hs_rm_control_measure] table.
- The control measure is available to select in the following fields:
- Hazard field on the Hazard and controls form when defining a job in the job register.
- Add control measures window on a JSA form.
- Available Control Measures field on the Hazard assessment form when conducting a risk assessment.
Parent Topic:Setting up Health and Safety Risk Management