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Identifying hazards at workstations: a hazard library for risk assessment
The Hazard templates module in BHP Panic enables systematic identification of hazards at workstations, assessment of their severity and likelihood, and defining preventive actions. It is a tool that complements occupational risk assessment, focused on prevention.
Hazard templates
BHP Panic module
The hazard templates module lets you identify hazards at workstations and indicate their sources. It allows you to assess the severity of consequences and the likelihood of hazards occurring, and to define effects and preventive measures.
Identifying hazards is the first and hardest step in an occupational risk assessment. It requires experience and knowledge of the processes at the workstation, and it is the source of the most common errors in risk assessment documentation. A PIP inspector will see straight away if a welder's risk assessment has no UV radiation or a forklift operator's lacks the collision hazard.
The Hazard templates module in BHP Panic is a ready-made catalogue of typical hazards found at workstations in Poland: mechanical, chemical, biological, physical and psychophysical factors. For each hazard you indicate the source, assess the severity of consequences and the likelihood of occurrence, and define possible effects and proposed preventive actions. Each hazard has a name, a type and a short key, and biological hazards additionally have a hazard group, the type of agent (bacteria, viruses, fungi) and the route of transmission, which is how the register of biological agents in the Registers module is built from the same data.
Hazard templates are directly integrated with the Occupational Risk Assessment module: when creating a risk assessment at a workstation, you choose hazards from the catalogue instead of writing them anew, with sorting and filtering by category. You update the catalogue once and the whole company benefits.
What the module includes
- Identifying hazards at workstations
- Indicating hazard sources (machine, environment, material, work organisation)
- Assessing the severity of consequences of a hazard
- Assessing the likelihood of occurrence
- Defining possible health effects
- Planning preventive actions and protective measures
- Biological hazards with hazard group and route of transmission: the basis of the register of biological agents
- Sorting and filtering hazards by category (biological, substances, physical, psychophysical, harmful agents)
- Full integration with the Occupational Risk Assessment module
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the hazard library in the system come from?
BHP Panic provides a ready hazard library developed on the basis of the Polish Standards PN-N-18002 and PIP guidelines. You can use the ready items or create your own, specific to your industry or the technologies used in your company.
- Are hazard templates linked to the occupational risk assessment module?
Yes, hazards identified in the Hazard templates module are directly available when creating a risk assessment. You avoid entering data twice and can be sure that all relevant hazards have been taken into account in the risk assessment at every workstation.
- How do I assess the likelihood and severity of a hazard?
For each hazard you indicate the estimated severity of consequences and the likelihood of occurrence, in line with the PN-N-18002 methodology. The system calculates the risk level, suggests priorities for preventive actions and automatically updates related risk assessment documents.
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The Registers module covers the three registers required by regulations: harmful agents, biological agents, and carcinogenic and mutagenic agents, with document versions, approval and employee acknowledgements.
Offline app
The BHP Panic mobile app lets you report a workplace accident and carry out a site inspection with a checklist even when the device has no internet connection. The data goes to the system automatically as soon as you are back in coverage.
OHS News
The OHS News module delivers current information to employees and OHS specialists about changes in OHS regulations, PIP inspection results and industry news, directly in the system, with no need to search external sources.
Educational materials
The Educational materials module provides ready-made booklets, posters and OHS training materials to download and use in your company, making it easier to run educational activities and build safety awareness among employees.
Employee reports
The Employee reports module lets employees report hazards and unsafe situations in the workplace. Reports go to the OHS specialist, who can plan and track corrective actions.
Reports
In this module you will see summaries of accident rates, employees, and upcoming expiry dates of training and medical examinations. You can also set up email notifications that remind you of approaching expiry dates.
Personal protective equipment
Keep track of the issue of equipment, protective clothing and other PPE. Link protective equipment to workstations to easily see what employees are missing. You will receive email notifications about upcoming expiry dates of equipment.
Training
The OHS training module lets you manage initial and periodic training, automatically generate the required OHS documentation, and deliver training through a multilingual e-learning platform with extended knowledge-test functionality for employees of different nationalities.
Occupational Risk Assessment
The Occupational Risk Assessment module lets you create risk assessment documents assigned to a workstation and estimate risk using the PN-N-18002 method (Polish Standard).
Accidents
The workplace accidents module lets you record, analyse and handle accident events in the workplace. It supports documenting post-accident proceedings and keeping the required records.
