Managing Risk in the Workplace

Managing Risk

Contents
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................3
LO1: Evaluate the applicability of human fallibility to a situation of risk in the
workplace..................................................................................................................3
LO2: Understand and apply knowledge of a ‘just culture to building a workplace
culture of openness and accountability.....................................................................5
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................6
REFERENCES.............................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Risk is the essential part of an organisation but it is essential for the manager
to take calculative risk in order to carry out successive growth as well as
development. At the same time the entity needs to make special precaution for their
staff as well as employees so that they get healthy environment to carry out
functioning (Smith, Merna and Jobling, 2014). For the better understanding of essay
Balfour Beatty Plc multination company of UK has been selected which deliver
services of construction, infrastructure and professional. The company has
significantly transferred its business in various countries like Ireland, Canada, US
and so on. This essay covers topics like description of the human fallibility to
manage the risky situation of a workplace. Along with that apply knowledge “just
culture” to build as well as promote open and accountable workplace.
LO1: Evaluate the applicability of human fallibility to a situation of risk in the
workplace
Human error is something when an individual do something which they don’t
intend to do and which may affect the productivity of the company. It is a deviation
from the main objective which the individual try to achieve. There are various type of
human error which may affect Balfour Beatty plc. Some of them are:
Fatique: Employee can work below their capabilities because of fatigue which
may arise due to high workload. Balfour Beatty employee is also facing such
problem due to tight deadlines.
Disregarding safety: Not taking care of safety or not adopting safety
measure may cause an accident in workplace which may result in a loss to the
company and Balfour Beatty is well aware of it and try to train the employees on the
same.
It has been observed that there has been increase number of incidence at the
workplace and the people working there had to bear the consequences and those
has mainly happen due to human failure most of the time. Human errors are
consistently regarded as significant source of risk in any organisation and it has
resulted in high number of accident and incidence (Dekker, Sakaguchi and Kawai,
2013). Company believe that human error originate from the design stage there are