HAZARD IDENTIFICATION AND RISK ASSESSMENT (HIRA)
DATE & TIME : FORMAT NO : EHS/HO/027
LIST UPDATED BY : REV. NO. : 0
PROJECT / SITE / LOCATION : DATE OF REV. : 01.05.2009
Risk assessment with present Post Control Risk
EHS Impact / Risk
controls Proposed new Control assessment
No of people Whether Measure Link Whether
S Environmental Aspect / OH & S Environmental Impact / OH & S Description of Present %ge reduction in
Particulars of the activity exposed to E-H-S D-I N-A-E IP L S P C SPC Significant? S P C SPC Significant? Mark
No hazard Risk control measure Risk Index
OH & S Risks Mark if "Yes" if "Yes"
Indicate the alphabet Indicate the Ratings Indicate Refernce Indicate the Ratings
Description:
E=ENVIRONMENT, H=HEALTH/HYGIENE, S=SAFETY, D=DIRECT, I=INDIRECT, N=NORMAL, A=ABNORMAL, E=EMERGENCY, IP=INTERESTED PARTY CONCERN, L=LEGAL CONCERN, S=SEVERITY, P=PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE, C=CONTROL MEASURE
RATING GUIDE: MINIMUM IS 1, MAXIMUM IS 5 ON EACH OF S, P AND C. HENCE SPC RATING CAN BE ANY NUMBER BETWEEN 1 TO 125,
HIRA BY : HIRA REVIEWED BY : HIRA APPROVED BY :
HAZARD IDENTIFICATION AND RISK ASSESSMENT (HIRA)
1. Purpose
The purpose of Hazard Identification and Risk Assessemtn Record is as under;
a) To ensure that hazards associated with an activity are identified well in advance to starting of an activity.
b) To ensure that risk associated with activity are known and communicated to workers and supervisors for taking preventive actions.
c) To ensure that preparations for controls are made in advance to start of an activity.
d) To ensure proactive approach is adopted rather than reactive approach to reduce incidents at construction site.
2. Scope
The format is applicable to all the sites of Lodha Group.
3. Definitions
Hazard : Source, situation or act with a potential for harm, in terms of human injury or ill health or a combination of these.
Hazard Identification : Process of recognition that a hazard exists and defining its characteristics.
Risk : Combination of the likelihood of an occurence of a hazardous event or exposure and severity of injury or ill health that can be caused by the event or exposure.
Risk Assessment : Process of evaluating the risk arising from hazards, taking into account the adequacy of any existing controls, then deciding whether or not the risk is acceptable.
Acceptable Risk : Risk that has been reduced to a level that can be tolerated by organization having regard to its legal obligation and its own EHS policy.
Corrective Action : Action to eliminate the cause of detected non conformity or undesirable situation.
Preventive Action : Action to prevent or eliminate the cause of a potential nonconformity or other undesirable potential situation.
Interested Party : Person or group, inside or outside the workplace, concerned with or affected by the EHS performance of an organization.
Environment : Surrounding in which an organization operates, including air, water, land, natural resources, flora, fauna, humans and their interactions.
Environment Aspects : Element of an organizations activities or products or services that can interact with the environment.
Environment Impacts : Any change to the environment whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partialy resulting from an organizations environmental aspects.
People Exposed : It is number of persons exposed to that risk or aspect.
Direct or Indirect Risk : Direct risk is one which directly affects the persons exposed to the risk and Indirect risk is one which indirectly affects the person exposed to the risk.
Normal or Abnormal or Emergency : It is normal if the exposure to risk is during normal course of an activity; it is abnormal if the exposure to risk is during abnormal condition of activyt and it is emergency if the exposure to risk is during emergency situations.
Severity : Severity is the extent of seriousness involved with particular activity and its risk (1 - Fatal; 2 - LTA; 3 - NLTA; 4 - FA; 5 - NM).
Probability : Probability is the frequency at which activity is carried out and hence there is exposure to risk (1 - Once a Year; 2 - Once a Month; 3 - Once a week; 4 - Once a day; 5 - Many times a day).
Controls : It is effectiveness of the present control measures for eliminating or minimizing the risk (1 - Controls are in place and effective; 2 - Controls are in place but not effective; 3 Controls are planned and are under implementation; 4 - Controls are planned but not implemented; 5 - Controls are not planned.
Significant Activity : An activity that requires immediate controls to eliminate or minimize the risk which has higher risk index greater than 80 SPC (SPC = S x P x C) by virtue of its severity, probability and effectiveness of present controls.
4. Roles & Responsibilities
Safety Associate : Safety associate is responsible for training the project team on process to be adopted for HIRA and use of this format. He is responsible for reviewing the HIRA for all the activities been carried out at site by site project team. Initially major activities shall be covered and then minor activities shall also be covered. He shall be
responsible for guiding site team in HIRA process.
Engineer & Supervisor : Engineers and supervisors are responsible for carrying out HIRA for any activities taken up by them. Initially major activities shall be covered and then minor activites shall also be covered. They should take all precautionary and control measures as identified in HIRA to ensure that incidents at construction site can be avoided.
Project Manager : Project Manager is responsible for allocating the required resouces to ensure that the HIRA is proactively used as a part of project activity and controls are placed to ensure that unwanted incidents can be avoided.
5. Procedure
a) Safety associate organize and train all the engineers and supervisors on HIRA process and use of this format.
b) He shall then initially help them with examples of site activities for training them on hand.
c) Site engineers shall conduct HIRA process to find the hazards and risks involved in activities taken up by them.
d) Site engineers in consultation with safety associate shall decide on controls required to eliminate or minimize the risk.
e) Site engineers should communicate the controls required to contractiors for required preparations.
f) Site engineers should monitor the compliance to controls required during execution of activities.
g) In case of any deviation, he shall bring it to the notice through safety violation form.
6. Records & Attachment
This record of HIRA shall be maintained by safety department and site engineers and should be maintained for retention period upto completion of project and should be used on a frequency when the activities are planned.
