This topic should provide you with the ability to:
Plan work in accordance with provisions of OHS legislation and standards
Identify and address hazards and report risk, incidents and injuries in line with organisation policies and procedures
Undertake OHS housekeeping in work area and update own knowledge of OHS issues
Manage own levels of stress and fatigue to ensure ability to work safely
Section 1.4 Report residual risk according to organisation procedures
What do we mean by residual risk?
This refers to those risks that are still obvious after all controls have been put into place.
Look at the management of sharps to show some examples of some residual risks are:
Management of sharps is a great risk in itself even if you have set procedures in place to enable staff to utilise the correct handling. This is residual risk.
Also, if there are limited protocols in place, such as instructions on safely removing needles, then this too is residual risk.
You have been given a sharps container to correctly dispose of sharps. This in itself is how it should be, however, what if the sharps container had been placed on the bench in such a position that you have to lean so far over that it makes the depositing of sharps very unsafe. This becomes another form of residual risk.
