You should do a hazard assessment in your organization very simply to prevent incidents and losses from happening. Hazard assessments are one of the most powerful tools for ensuring this happens. Now, hazard assessments are very complex and usually the most common hazard assessments that are done are field level risk assessments and job safety analyses.
Job safety analyses are done before you even go out to the work sites; on construction you do a safety plan before you start construction. You assess all the hazards and all the risks and you control them and you reduce the chance of loss before you are even out there. Good planning. As Steve Covey says, “You sharpen the saw in order to cut the wood.”
Field level risk assessments are when you are cutting the wood. You make sure your saw is in the right place and that you are working hard to cut down that tree. Field level risk assessments stop bad habits from happening where you immediately go into the job, you don’t think about the hazards, you can get injured because you are on autopilot. Field level risk assessments look for hazards that are uncontrolled and you control them before you do the job and as the job progresses you reassess and look at the hazards and mitigate them; that is reduce them.
Two very powerful techniques; job safety analyses and field level risk assessments can go a long way to preventing losses, injury and death.