Risk Assessment & Job Safety Analysis
Practical risk assessment for upstream oil and gas operations: telling hazard from risk, rating risk on a 5×5 matrix, controlling it through the hierarchy of controls, and writing and leading a Job Safety Analysis (JSA) for real field tasks.
54m
Total time
4
Competency levels
12
Lessons
What you'll learn
- Distinguish a hazard from a risk and explain why every task needs a suitable and sufficient risk assessment
- Rate likelihood and consequence on a 5×5 risk matrix and read inherent versus residual risk
- Apply the hierarchy of controls, starting at elimination, and justify remaining risk as ALARP
- Write a Job Safety Analysis: break a task into steps, identify the hazards at each step and set controls for each step
- Recognise when conditions have changed enough to stop the job and reassess
- Lead risk-assessment teams and keep assessments alive through review and management of change
Curriculum
Progress through each competency level in order.
1
Awareness
- 3mHazard, Risk and Why We AssessKnowledge
- 2mWhen the Plan Stops Matching Reality: Stop the JobKnowledge
- 7mAwareness Check: Hazards, Risk and Stopping the JobAssessment
2
Knowledge
- 3mRating Risk: the 5×5 MatrixKnowledge
- 3mControlling Risk: the Hierarchy of Controls and ALARPKnowledge
- 8mKnowledge Check: Matrix, Hierarchy and ALARPAssessment
3
Skill
- 3mWriting a JSA: Steps, Hazards, ControlsKnowledge
- 3mAssignment: Write a JSA for a Real TaskAssignment
- 8mSkill Check: Building and Using a JSAAssessment
4
Mastery
- 3mLeading Risk Assessment: Facilitation, Challenge and Living DocumentsKnowledge
- 3mAssignment: Lead a JSA and Present It for Sign-offAssignment
- 8mMastery Check: Judgement in Leading Risk AssessmentAssessment
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