Employers have a duty to carry out risk assessments to identify what hazards exist in a workplace, and how likely these hazards are to cause harm. They must then decide what prevention or control measures are needed.

Risk = Likelihood x Consequence

The purpose of risk assessment is to:

• Consider the chance of harm actually occurring and the possible consequences.

• Enable preventative measures to be planned, introduced and monitored to make sure the risks are adequately controlled.

• Ensure the legal requirements are complied with in respect of identifying and controlling significant hazards.

To be effective, risk assessment must:

• Be sufficient to guide the judgement on measures to take to comply with legal obligations.

• Cover all risks to the health and safety of people who may be affected in the workplace.

• Be regularly reviewed to ensure any changes to risks are recorded and managed.

In short, the following steps are taken:

• Select the area or task to be assessed

• Identify the hazards

• Identify whether any injury, illness, or damage could result

• Conduct risk assessment using the matrix

• List most serious first

• Implement a control plan.

It is the responsibility of all workers to assess the risk of any task they are asked to do and to request safe training in a procedure if warranted. 

Managers have a responsibility to include events that are held by the church be added to the relevant Locations' Activity Risk List.  From here the Compliance office assesses the need for a Safety Management Plan (SMP) or more extensive Risk Management Strategy or approves the activity to continue with Citipointe sanctioned safe measures in place.  

Assessing Potential Risk

In order to assess the risk rating of a task or activity you should assess:

1. Consequence - how severe would the consequence be if there was an accident or incident related to your activity? (Table 1)

2. Likelihood - how likely is it that an accident or incident will occur? (Table 2)

3. Risk Assessment Matrix - map the consequence and liklihood on the Risk Matrix to determine the rating level of your activity. (Table 3)

4. Now we have to write controls for activities (Table 5 example of youth camp zone battles)

IF AN ACTIVITY HAS RATING OF 10 OR ABOVE, THAT IS THE ACTIVITY POSES AN EXTREME OR HIGH RISK, WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM THE CHURCH COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT MUST BE SOUGHT IN ORDER TO HOLD THIS ACTIVITY