Unit IG2: Risk Assessment | Assignment

Unit IG2: Risk assessment
Declaration: by submitting this assessment (Parts 1 – 4) for marking I declare that it is entirely my own work. I understand that falsely
claiming that the work is my own is malpractice and can lead to NEBOSH imposing severe penalties (see the NEBOSH Malpractice Policy for
further information).
Part 1: Background
Include in here the organisation’s name* and location* and number of workers. You must then go on to give a description of the main
activities/products/services carried out. You must also describe the area to be risk assessed eg, whole site, and anything else that you consider
relevant (approximately 150 to 200 words):
My company is known as Abdul Rahman AL-Otaishan & Sons Group (ARO). It is located in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia with 15 branches and
2,500 employees. I am working on Jubail City at the Ibn Zahr plant.
ARO Group is a very big company construction company in both Industrial and Transportation services. The company is involved in different
businesses and in service areas like Insulation, painting, coating, refractory, concrete repair, asphalting and many others. And working for big a
company such as SABIC and ARAMCO Plants handling big projects in asphalt as the company has its product and equipment for asphalting also
very high skill and experience employees. More than that, working in a maintenance job with more than 30 plants such as concrete repair and
leaking of water, etc. Therefore, it is involved in both shutdown and Turn around for several sectors one of them is Insulation and specialized on the
mechanical system insulation in different applications such as Boilers, process piping, and fittings, storage Tank and Vessels. Workers have been
divided into two shifts first one is the day shift from 6 am to 6 pm and another one is night shift from 6 pm to 6 am as the company provides 24 hour
services for their clients.
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The risk assessment area that I am looking to cover is about Concrete and Masonry work.
You must now give a brief outline on how you completed the risk assessment (approximately 200 words):
I have involved in various concrete and masonry work so I decided to cover this area and I have been looking in Osha website as professional
standard for both of them. Osha is one of the trusted website in the world and it very reach in term of information on Health and safety and it give
step by step process to make sure that you have safely work and here is the link for it https://www.osha.gov/Publications/3106.html it is very good
guide website to follow. I identified the hazards that could cause harm through assessing health and safety risks that workers were faced with.
These includes mental risks, physical risks, chemical risks and biological risks. I also identify who was at the risks of being harmed. For instance,
visitors, employers, operators of machineries and clients. The members of the public were identified too. Repetitive tasks in slips, lift loads were
places that were assessed in depth. I considered how each risks were likely to cause damage or injury to different individuals. It assisted me to
determine how I could reduce the risk level. I then decided on the measures to undertake to prevent such risk from cause damage and injuries to
employees, supervisors and workshop operates.
Therefore, I have asked several experience staff that they have been worked on this area and they discover many things to be used while doing any
kind of work on concrete job which they were not using it or even wear it such as leather gloves to protect their hands. I have discovered many
incidents happen during of these kind of job and it happen more than one time which mean this need to be consider.
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* If you’re worried about confidentiality, you can invent a false name and location for your organisation but, all other information provided must be
factual.
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Part 2: Risk Assessment
Organisation name:
Date of assessment:
Scope of risk assessment:
Hazard
category and
hazard
Who might be harmed
and how?
What are you already doing? What further controls/actions are
required?
Timescales for
further actions
to be
completed
(within ...)
Responsible
person’s job
title
Vibration
Grinding
activities
All workers in the
workshop and visitors on
site as well as the entire
public
When handheld tools are
used in excess, they cause
vibration thus resulting to
Hand-arm-vibration i.e.
the vibration white finger.
Such tools include
Conducting training programs
for all workers on how to
operate such hand-held tools
Buying tools that have been
designated to prevent the risks
of Hand-arm-vibration
disorders
Maintaining hand-held tools
often
1. Reduce the time for using
vibration tools
2. Shift workers between
activities and design an
elaborate work shift table
3. Affected workers to be taken
care of by offering medical
assistance to them
4. Talks related to tool-box to be
conducted annually to workers
4 months
6 months
1 month
Stores
managers and
workshop
managers
Finance
director
Workshop
manager
Finance
director and
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