What is residual risk in health and safety
What are Residual Hazard that should be included in the Handover Health and Safety manual and O&M manuals?Since CDM 2007 there has been an increasing emphasis on providing a residual risks section in the health and safety Manual. Some sub-contractors find this particularly confusing because of the apparent similarity with the risk assessment that they are required to make before they start work. Show The residual risks in an O&M Manual relate only to those risks that exist for the client once the Sub-Contractor has left the job. So, for example, if there is an installation in a high ceiling and it may require some maintenance (eg changing a light bulb), the residual risk is 'working at height' and the advice section will stipulate that appropriate as careful doing be used. Below is an example of a residual risk assessment:- Architectural
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There are occasions in which the somewhat trivial example shown above will not be adequate. Perhaps when a particular complex or dangerous piece of equipment has been installed, mostly the advice will be two not touch it there and to call in specified and qualified maintenance engineers to hand to handle any issues that arise. However it would be useful to ensure that sufficient technical detail is available in the O&M to enable these tech qualified maintenance engineers to navigate through an unfamiliar system. What is meant by a residual risk?Residual risk is the risk that remains after efforts to identify and eliminate some or all types of risk have been made. Residual risk is important for several reasons. First to consider is that residual risk is the risk "left over" after security controls and process improvements have been applied.
What is residual risk in workplace?Residual risk is defined as the threat that remains after every effort has been made to identify and eliminate risks in a given situation. In other words, it is the degree of exposure to a potential hazard even after that hazard has been identified and the agreed upon mitigation has been implemented.
What is residual risk in HSE?Residual risk – the risk still remaining after the implementation of control measures. In the case of effective controls the residual risk is always lower than the pre-controlled risk.
Which best defines residual risk?Definition(s): Portion of risk remaining after security measures have been applied.
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