RISK MANAGEMENT REVIEWER RISK MANAGEMENT • Hazardous Hazard

• Identify the risk • Biological Hazard

Biggest Risk in Life
• Analyze the risk • Radiation Hazard
-Losing a chance
• Prioritize the risk
TRIANGE CATEGORIES • Ownership HAZARD & RISK
• EMERGENCY – require immediate treatment • Respond to the risk • Risk assessment requires you to know hazard &
• PRIORITY – rapid assessment and treatment • Monitor the risk risk
• NON-URGENT – can wait their turn for • Hazard is something with the potential to cause
assessment and treatment What is RISK? harm
• A chance or probability that a person will be • Risk is the likelihood that harm with occur
RISK harmed or experience an adverse health effect if • RISK = HAZARD x EXPOSURE
• Health risk exposed to a hazard.
• Fire risk HARM SEVERITY
• Security risk SOURCES OF RISKS • CATASTROPHIC – multiple deaths
• People risk • Uncertainty in Financial Markets • CRITICAL – one death or multiple severe injuries
• Ethical risk • Threats from project failures • MARGINAL – one severe injury or multiple minor
• Legal liabilities injuries
What is RISK MANAGEMENT? • Credit risk • NEGLIBLE – one minor injury
• Accidents
o Falls RISK MATRIX
o Fire • Used to define the various level of risk as the
o Poison product of the harm probabilities and severity
o Tools categories
o Shop ad Laboratories
o School IMPORTANCE OF RISK MATRIX
• Natural causes and Disaster • Easy Prioritization of Risks – risks aren’t equal
• Deliberate attack from adversary- unexpected • Targeted Strategy for Managing Risks – risks
RISK MANAGEMENT events due to some circumstances don’t carry the same impact
• Identifying, assessing and controlling threats • Events or Uncertain of predictable root-causes • Real-Time View of the Evolving Risk
• Attempt to prepare for the unexpected by Environment – risk matrix enables you to
minimizing risks and extra cost What is HAZARD? identify specific types of risk, their probability
• Must access self-strengths and weaknesses • Something that could potentially cause harm. It and severity and do mitigation strategy
can be detected by our 5 senses.
BENEFITS OF RISK MANAGEMENT RISK = LIKELIHOOD x CONSEQUENCES
• Create a safe secure work environment TYPES OF HAZARDS
• Physical Hazard • FIRST AID – Immediate and temporary aid
• Increases the stability of business operations
• Provides protection from events that are • Ergonomic Hazard provided to a sick or injured person or
detrimental (dangerous) • Psychological Hazard animal until medical treatment can be
• Environmental Hazard provided.
 in diver rescue, and covers specific problems
• Must be knowledgeable which may be faced after water-based rescue.
• Remain calm • Battlefield First Aid - This takes in to account
the specific needs of treating wounded
AIMS of FIRST AID combats and non-combatants during armed
• To Preserve life conflicts.
• To Prevent further harm • Oxygen First Aid - This pertains to providing
• To Promote recovery oxygen to casualties who suffer from
• To Protect yourself conditions resulting in Hypoxemia.
• Wilderness First Aid - is the provisions of first
HISTORY of FIRST AID aid under conditions where the arrival of
• First recorded dates to 1099, when a religious emergency responders or the evacuation of an
order of knights trained to administer medical injured person may be delayed due to
treatment constraints of terrain, weather and available
• The order of St. John – ST. JOHN AMBULANCE persons, equipment.
– to specialized treatment in battlefields
injuries during the crusades BENEFITS
• 1792, the French Army Surgeon General, • Value to self
formed the first official amry medical cops • Value to others
• During 1860’s first Geneva Convention the • Value in remote locations
International Red Cross came into being to
protect and deal with sick and injured soldiers CONSIDERATIONS
on the battlefield • Consent
• Work begun by Henry Dunant • Implied consent and mentally incompetent
• In 1878, the term “first aid” first appeared in • Refusing help
Britain and is thought to be derived from “first • Abandonment
treatment” and “National Aid”.
• Surgeon Major Peter Shepherd and a Doctor FIRST AID KIT
Coleman ran the first public first aid course at, • can help save a life or make a person
London in January 1878 comfortable until professional help arrives
• Dr. James Cantile later published Shepherds • can stabilize a person until paramedics and
lesson notes from that course as First Aid To other emergency personnel arrive on the scene
The Injured.
• National Health Services Act of 1946 – came
to effect in 1948

SPECIFIC FIRST AID DISIPLINE

• Aquatic/Marine First Aid - This is usually-
practiced by professionals such as lifeguards or