Web Based Back Office

The back office database is used to set up generic tasks, hazards and recommended control measures.  A task is defined and then associated with many hazards of all types as they may apply.  Each hazard can have many control measures defined, and the workflow process in the PDA allows a user to say which of those are present at the time of carrying out a task. The uncontrolled risk percentage being the value to consider before a start is made.

 Risk Scoring

A PDA is used to analyse risk for any task in hand.  The analysis can include the prevailing weather, or lighting conditions. Additional hazards can be assessed whenever the risk assessment is run, for instance to account for a shift change, an induction, a change in the weather, or working in hazardous conditions not originally known at the outset of the task.

The analysis record is then stored in the back office.  Management is given the choice of setting boundary levels as to which risks are acceptable and which tasks can be carried out.

This concept of risk scoring can be extended to many provisions of the H&S legislation where workplace risks are involved, for instance COSSH, PUWER and LOLER regulations.