hi kevin here again i'm a health and safety professional
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today i want to talk to you about the difference between hazard risk
and consequence you know a few years back i was working with a group of folks
they were carpenters and cabinet makers and we got
to talking about table saws the funny thing is is i ask them okay
what is the hazard when using a table saw and a bunch of
them said well cutting off your fingers yeah i suppose that's a big thing but uh
so i said okay well what's the risk then involved when using a table saw
and they said well cutting off your fingers okay going forward
what's the consequence well cutting off your fingers
okay confused i was if you stick with me let's see if we can figure out the
difference between hazard risk and consequence because
they're three different things but they all
apply to the hazard recognition and control process
after the intro let's get into it
so first off so we're sure of it a hazard is basically any source of
potential damage that can harm or adversely affect the
health of someone or something can be adversely
affected or damaged if you go to the canadian center for occupational health
and safety they'll bring this out into a large expanded
definition for you but let's put it in the simplest terms a
hazard is basically something that has a
negative effect or an adverse effect on anything it
interacts with so with people it's going to cause
injury or illness with property or assets there's going to be harm
or damage and with the environment once again more harm and damage
so going to our table saw analogy that we talked about earlier
basically one of the hazards if we were to consider it is an
unguarded blade a lot of times people that you
experienced users with a table saw will take the guard off
for lots of different reasons, one off the bat is a plunge making a plunge cut.
If you want to know what a plunge cut is search YouTube
it'll show you. Now risk, getting onto risk we talked about hazard earlier
so now risk, risk, is the chance or probability of the manifestation of a
consequence after that negative interaction with the
exposure to a hazard. One of the things that you want to
consider with risk is risk increases or the chance
of probability it directly corresponds with
time duration frequency and repetition so if you're using a table saw once a
week your risk of something occurs is not
nearly as of something your risk of something
occurring is not nearly as bad or as great as if you're
using it several times a day and repeating that process daily every
week frequent exposure to that unguarded
blade causes risk to increase or the chance of something
occurring increases and now consequence
consequence to simply put it a negative result of the exposure to the
hazard after being exposed to it frequently
causes a severe outcome so injury has occurred and
injury just put an injury whether it be minor soft tissue injury
small cut to your finger or a cataclysmic one where you've
lost a bunch i don't mean to bring up any
um bad memories for those that have lost fingers
so basically that's how it works so let's look at all of this
together examining our table saw analogy so once again going to the back
to the table saw the hazard is the exposed or unguarded
blade for whatever reason risk is the probability that adverse
consequences might occur which are increased by the
exposure which of course is influenced by
the frequency the repetition and or the duration
or all three together consequence itself is the adverse outcome getting injured
damage etc yeah i hope that gives you a better understanding of the three things
and as i said this video is basically a springboard
into the hazard recognition and control
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