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The hazard register

Each hazard rated for likelihood and consequence before and with its controls, controlled by the hierarchy of control, with an owner and a review date. Anyone on site can report one.

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Applies to: Site Safety Records · Administrator, Team member, Safety officer (HSEQ), Project or site manager, Gate user, Director or executive

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A hazard belongs to one site, or to your whole business. Anyone on your team can report one; an admin assesses and manages them (builders and businesses: a safety officer, or the site's project or site manager). Only an admin or safety officer adds hazards for the whole business.

How to report a hazard

  1. Step 1: Choose Report a hazard (on the overview, the register or the site's panel).
  2. Step 2: Choose the site, write the hazard and the Details, and rate the Likelihood and Consequence as you see it.
  3. Step 3: Add photos, then choose Report hazard. It goes in as Reported · to assess, and the site's safety people are told.

How to add and assess one

  1. Step 1: Choose Add a hazard, or open a reported one.
  2. Step 2: Rate the Risk before controls: likelihood and consequence, 1 to 5 each.
  3. Step 3: Add Controls, most effective first: eliminate, substitute, isolate, engineering, then administrative and PPE.
  4. Step 4: Rate the Risk with these controls, choose the Owner, Review by date and Status (Open, Controlled or Closed), and link any SWMS, permits or inspections that cover it.
  5. Step 5: Choose Save assessment. Raise a corrective action for anything that needs doing.

The risk matrix

  • Score = likelihood × consequence: 1–4 low, 5–9 medium, 10–14 high, 15–25 extreme.
  • A high or extreme hazard controlled only by procedures and PPE is flagged, so you look higher up the hierarchy.
  • An extreme hazard tells the site's safety people when it's added. A hazard past its review date shows under Needs you.

With Insights & AI's AI assist on, Draft it from a photo (AI assist) suggests the hazard's details from a site photo. You check and change them before saving. See AI assist.

The 5 × 5 matrix is a common one, not a standard. Your own adviser decides what's right for you.
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