Hazard assessment form

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  • Updated December 8, 2025
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    Summary of Hazard assessment form

    The Hazard Assessment form enables risk assessment managers to systematically review hazards, select appropriate control measures, and evaluate risk levels. It supports a structured approach to identifying hazards related to specific jobs and job steps, assessing their potential effects, and managing risks through control measures. This form integrates with risk analysis and job registers to streamline hazard management.

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    Key Features

    • Unique Identification: Each hazard assessment is assigned a system-generated unique number for tracking.
    • Risk Analysis Link: Automatically associates the hazard assessment with the relevant risk analysis, ensuring consistency in risk evaluation.
    • Job and Job Step Association: Connects the hazard assessment to predefined jobs and specific job steps, facilitating targeted hazard review. Fields auto-populate if the hazard is imported from an existing job.
    • Hazard Details: Includes the hazard being assessed, its category, and the potential effects, such as burns, providing clear context for risk evaluation.
    • Control Measures: Lists available control measures for selection and allows creation of new controls if existing ones do not apply. This helps in customizing prevention strategies.
    • Risk Evaluation Metrics: Captures inherent severity and likelihood (before controls), residual severity and likelihood (after controls), and calculates corresponding inherent and residual risk levels using an associated risk matrix.

    Key Outcomes

    • Facilitates thorough hazard review and risk assessment aligned with job-specific contexts.
    • Supports selection and customization of control measures to reduce risks effectively.
    • Enables clear understanding of risk reduction impact by comparing inherent and residual risk levels.
    • Ensures risk assessments comply with organizational risk matrices, enhancing safety management.

    Risk assessment managers can use the hazard assessment form to review a hazard and choose their control measures and assess their risk levels.

    For information on performing hazard assessments, see Assess safety hazards and risk levels for a risk analysis.

    Table 1. Hazard assessment
    Field Description
    Number System-generated unique number for the hazard assessment.
    Risk analysis Risk analysis associated with this hazard assessment.

    This field is auto-populated with the risk analysis number that this hazard assessment is created from.
    Job under assessment Predefined job in the job register that this hazard assessment is conducted for.

    For information on predefined jobs, see Jobs in the job register.

    If the hazard comes from an imported job, this field is auto-populated from that job.
    Job step under assessment Job step in the selected job that this hazard assessment is conducted for.

    If the hazard comes from an imported job, this field is auto-populated from that job.

    This field appears only when a job is selected in the Job under assessed field and the job has multiple steps.
    Hazard being assessed Hazard that this being reviewed in this assessment.
    Hazard category Name of the hazard category under which this hazard is organized.

    This field is auto-populated from the selected hazard.
    Effect caused by this hazard Effect that the selected hazard could have, for example, burns.
    Available Control Measures Control measures that are available to select.
    Selected Control Measures Control measures that could help prevent the selected hazard.

    Select all controls that can help prevent or minimize the effect caused by the selected hazard.

    If a control measures should be in place and isn't available in the Available Control Measures field, select Create new control to define a new control. For more information, see Define Health and Safety control measures.
    Inherent severity Severity of the hazard before control measures are in place.
    Inherent likelihood Likelihood of the hazard before controls.
    Residual severity Severity of the hazard after control measures have been put in place.
    Residual likelihood Likelihood of the hazard after control measures have been put in place.
    Inherent risk Risk level of the hazard before controls.

    The risk matrix used in the associated risk assessment evaluates the inherent risk level based on the severity and likelihood of the hazard before controls. For more information on risk level calculation, see Risk matrix form.
    Residual risk Risk level of the hazard after controls.

    The associated risk matrix evaluates the residual risk level for the hazard based on the severity and likelihood of the hazard after controls. After controls, the risk level should be reduced.