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Any
good Health and Safety Management System ensures that
change to, or outside influence on, existing facilities
and operations should be assessed in relation to impact
on health, safety and environmental standards. As an aid
to management of this process of assessment, Ambion have
developed a coarse risk management model which enables
the HSE Team to advise the Business Manager on the
likely issues associated with any change in terms of:
·
Impact
on existing risk;
·
Potential
cumulative impact on future risk taking into account
other developments;
·
Environmental
exposures against legislative and corporate
expectations;
in an efficient and auditable manner. The model overlays
risk predictions for any proposed change to onto a
"Base Case" Risk. The change in risk is then
determined and a level of warning (based upon a traffic
light colour scheme) assigned depending upon the
magnitude of change of risk. This is presented
schematically as follows.
This model is flexible has been successfully
used to help managers judge the likely impact of
proposed changes to existing arrangements and to screen
the effects of a number of potential development
options.
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