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Release: Australia · Updated: 2026-03-12 · Official documentation · View source

Safety risk assessment

The Risk Assessment is a process of identifying and evaluating potential hazards and risks associated with a process, system, product, or activity, and implementing measures that help prevent or mitigate those risks. The feature enables the safety of people and proactively reduce safety incident rates.

The safety team performs the following activities via the Health and Safety Workspace to conduct their risk assessments.

  • Identify and maintain a list of potential hazards associated with each job type. They also develop and implement effective control measures to eliminate or minimize the risks associated with each hazard.
  • Build risk matrixes to define levels of risk for identified hazards.​
  • Create and manage risk assessments to assess risk using predefined risk matrixes.
  • Schedule recommended actions for risk assessments, if applicable.
  • If a review and approval are required, assign the assessment to appropriate users.
  • Assigned users review and approve the assessments via Employee Center.

  • Conduct a safety risk assessment
    Conduct a safety risk assessment to identify and manage potential hazards and risks, and to ensure the safety of your employees and the public.

  • Perform risk analysis for a safety risk assessment
    For a risk assessment, perform risk analyses of identified hazards and choose control measures to assess how they impact and mitigate the hazard.
  • Create a risk analysis for a safety risk assessment from a job
    Create a risk analysis by importing hazards and controls from a predefined job in the job register to a risk assessment.
  • Assess safety hazards and risk levels for a risk analysis
    Review the identified hazards in a risk analysis and choose their control measures to assess how they impact and mitigate the risk.
  • Add an action for a safety risk
    Add an action to address an identified risk or implement control measures necessary to improve workplace safety. You can add multiple actions for a hazard or control measure.

Parent Topic:Using Health and Safety Risk Management