Risk Assessment
University staff and students often work in situations where they can be exposed to risk. Effective risk assessments are essential to ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of staff, students, contractors and visitors.
Aim
To assist leaders and managers in understanding how to undertake a successful work-related risk assessment for activities and locations.
Key content
By the end of this session participants will be able to:
- Know the definition of terms such as hazard, risk, likelihood, and consequence
- Know how to approach the five steps of the risk assessment process
- Understand the importance of good preparation
- Identify significant hazards
- Identify the people who may be harmed
- Be familiar with the hierarchy of control and evaluate the suitability of existing control measures
- Know how to calculate the risk level attached to a particular hazard
- Be able to break down processes into tasks
- Understand how to communicate the risk assessment findings and the importance of doing this well
- Recognise the conditions prompting a review of risk assessment
Suitability
Members of staff and postgraduate students involved in the risk assessment process. If you are a student and would like to attend this course, please send your name - student ID number and faculty name to od@auckland.ac.nz
Facilitator
A member of the Health, Safety and Wellbeing team
Leadership Framework dimension
- Setting Direction
- Enabling People
- Achieving Results
Cost
Free
Cancellation and enrolment information
Document Control
Version: 1.1
Last Updated: Mar 2025
Next Review: Mar 2028
Owner: hsw@auckland.ac.nz
Approver: Associate Director, Health Safety & Wellbeing