It has been said that accidents add to your troubles, subtract from your
profits and multiply your losses, no business needs to bear this kind of
mathematics. Therefore Rocky Safety Consultancy can provide a professional service to reduce the injuries/losses and improve the working environment.

A business with a proactive and consultative approach to health and
safety will be able to lessen the risk of accidents/injuries and will have a safety management system implemented to save time, finances, and most of all lives.

What is Risk Management?

It can be said that Risk Management is the process by which a business identifies, assesses, controls and minimises the risk of injury or financial loss arising from its workplace activities.

What is a work accident or incident?

A work accident or incident is a work related event, which occurs during working hours, and has an end result of injury to the worker or visitors to the workplace or damage to plant, equipment
and property.

Some work related accidents can include travelling to or from work, work that involves travel and during meal breaks.

What is Workplace Rehabilitation?

Workplace rehabilitation is the process that assists the injured person
to make the best possible recovery from an injury, illness or disability.
Workplace rehabilitation is a managed process that is aimed at returning the injured to their pre-injury status job position or to suitable employment.

What is Health Surveillance?

Health surveillance is the monitoring of a person's health to identify changes caused by exposure that may effect the health of the person.
Health surveillance usually takes into account the following issues
(not exhaustive);

*the nature and extent, including duration of exposure.

*the changes attributable to the exposure.

*the frequency at which any changes may be expected to occur.

Hazard Identification

This is the process of establishing what hazards are present in the
workplace (internal and external environments) usually by conducting
an inspection or walk through survey of the workplace and by examining the incident/injury/near miss records. Rocky Safety Consultancy also converse with employees who are the people who
understand the unusual or potential hazards of a work related task.

A hazard is defined as a source that has the potential to cause harm, injury or disease. There are six classified hazards:

Ergonomic - worker, tool interface.

Biological- the threat of illness.

Radiation - UV rays, x-rays, infra red, gamma rays.

Chemical - hazardous substances with a toxic effect on the body.

Physical- slips, trips, falls, manual handling injuries.

Psychological- mental wellness, stress.

Risk Assessment/identification

Risk Assessment/identification is a process to ascertain what risks may be associated with the hazard by determining how many people are
exposed x how often people are exposed to the hazard and what injuries
could result.

Risk is defined as the ‘ probability or likelihood of the hazards resulting
in an injury or disease together with the seriousness of the injury or
disease.

Risk assessment is a process of assembling data and making decisions
about what strategies or action needs to be taken to control the risk.

Risk Control/implementation

Risk Control/implementation is the final stage where a decision is made
to eliminate the hazard. If a decision has been made to redesign or modify working conditions, the preferred safety management tool is
the ‘hierarchy of control’.

The Hierarchy of Control

(1) Elimination. (2) Substitution. (3) Engineering Controls