Prioritise risk assessments

• Outline a plan for the completion of risk assessments i.e. what to start with.
• Pick your top worst 5 to 10 hazardous manual tasks and start there.
• Prioritise using survey results, incident and injury data and worker feedback.
• Review this list on a regular basis.

Conduct risk assessments

• Undertake risk assessments on-the-job.
• Risk assessment to be led by worker trained as a PErforM facilitator.
• Risk assessments to have photos and videos of tasks to be captured to assist in risk assessment process.

Propose controls

• Proposed controls to be identified for each assessment.
• All controls to be captured and recorded for possible implementation.
• Start with higher level controls i.e. focus on elimination, substitution, isolation and design controls.
• Don’t reply on or revert to just low level controls i.e. Administrative controls.
• Refer to PErforM ergonomic controls implementation, for an example of documentation that could be presented to management for decisions about controls implementation.