Risk

Assessment
Name: Sharjeel Rafaqat

Roll No: 205219

Assignment No: 02

Subject: Aeronautical Decision Making

Submitted To: Sir Saeed

Q1. Explain hazard, risk and risk management in your own words?
Hazard: A hazard can be any source of possible damage, harm, or negative impact for something
or someone. In other words, we can say a hazard is the likeliness of harm.
Risk: It is the possibility that a person could be harmed or experience an unfavorable affect if
exposed to a hazard. It may also apply to instances involving property or equipment loss, as well
as negative environmental consequences. Risk is calculated by the probability of damage that may
occur multiplied by severity.
Risk Management: It is a strategic process that assists organizations in identifying, assessing,
reviewing, prioritizing, and minimizing risk for business operations. It is a step-by-step process
for controlling health and safety risks caused by hazards in the workplace.

Q2. What are steps for risk assessment process?

Following are the steps involved in Risk Management Operations:

• Identify hazards:
o We can look around for potential hazards such as open chemicals, broken glass or
any unsafe practices that may be going on.
• Assess the risks:
o The next step can be the assessment based upon the likeliness of the harm that
someone may get and the seriousness of it.
• Control the risks
o After the assessment, you may next try to control the hazard. The options can be to
completely remove the hazard or if you can’t, take precautions to minimize it. If it
can be replaced, fixed or needs reorganizing (already assessed), you should go for
it.
• Record your findings
o You should also record your findings in order to note down the potential hazards
and how they were gotten rid of. This can be used in future.
• Review the controls
o Reviewing after implementation is just as important. You should keep checks on
the procedures you adopted in order to keep them on going and avoid generation of
potential risk and keeping safe environment.
Q.3 What is hierarchy of controls?

The hierarchy of controls is

crucial to workplace safety.
It is at the root of
environmental, heath, and
safety initiatives utilized by
businesses of all sizes and
sectors. It is a method of
addressing environmental
safety (in this case,
occupational safety) that
divides preventive measures
into five phases, from most
to least effective.

Elimination: When you

eliminate a hazard, you are
removing it from the environment where it can harm people. Curing a disease or devising a method
for employees to do their tasks without leaving ground level are instances of elimination.
Substitution; second-best defense: It includes substituting a non-hazardous or less hazardous for
the dangerous item or method of operation.
Engineering controls: Engineering the items that may pose potential hazards to better suit for
people is the next option.
Administrative controls: They might not be as effective as the other ones but informing and
guiding people is still better. The goal here is to alter how people work, for example, by laws and
procedures or putting notices.
Personal protective equipment (PPE): In case a hazard can’t be eliminated or engineered you
can replace it with something else and the only choice is to supply individuals with protective
equipment such as helmets, goggles, gloves, boots, respirators, and hazmat suits.
Example:
One of the examples of applying Hierarchy of Controls in the case of COVID 19 is following:

Q4. What is risk assessment matrix? Explain a situation through risk matrix
by assigning likelihood and severity.
A risk assessment matrix is a tool for assessing the likelihood and severity of a given action or
inaction that is predicted to occur. The several degrees of chance include regular, probable,
infrequent, uncommon, and unlikely. Severity levels might be catastrophic, critical, minor, or
inconsequential. Activities that are both regular and catastrophic are regarded extremely high risk,
whereas activities that are both unlikely and insignificant are considered low risk. The matrix
requires recommendations to reduce or eliminate hazards in addition to identifying them.
Scenario:
Consider a commercial flight upon
landing gets a tire burst
First the chances of a tire burst are very
uncommon or remote as those tires are
very sturdy and do not burst unless it is
improbably handeled, is worn out or there
remains a pre-existing physical damage to
it.

Next, we need to understand the severity

of the situation. Most tire burst upon
landings are easily survive-able with some margin of damage to the aircraft itself but the intensity
of this mishap is considered critical because of the reason that the aircraft could possibly slide off
and cause damage or explosion to engine or can be fatal for souls onboard and people surrounding.

Therefore, the Risk would be assessed at [Critical-3 X Remote-2 = Serious (6)]

References:
https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/hsprograms/hazard_risk.html
https://www.kpa.io/blog/the-hierarchy-of-controls-what-it-is-and-how-to-use-it
https://safetyculture.com/topics/hierarchy-of-controls/
https://pmstudycircle.com/risk-assessment-matrix/