​The steps in the hazard management process are:

• Hazard identification

• Risk assessment

• Risk control

• Follow-up action

• ​If you identify a workplace hazard, you must report the issue immediately to your supervisor, line manager or specialist WHS person as quickly as possible

• Reporting hazards or potential incidents may require you to:

1. Verbally notify your supervisor, line manager or WHS person

2. Complete a formal hazard report form and submit the form to the relevant person.

​The best way to control a hazard is to eliminate it!!

Respond to inadequate controls

​•The final step of the risk management process is to monitor and review the controls.

•Once a risk control has been introduced into work operations, it must be reviewed and, where necessary, revised to make the necessary improvements.

​Consultation is essential in evaluation the effectiveness of a risk control measure and finding inadequacies in risk controls.

​Questions to ask workers as part of consultation processes:

• Are the controls working effectively?

• Have the controls introduced any new problems?

• Have all the hazards been identified?

• Have the new work methods made the job safer?

• Are people following the new procedures?

• Has sufficient instruction and training been provided?

• Is the likelihood of consequences reducing over time?

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