Assessing Risk
Hazard identification, people at risk, existing controls, risk evaluation, further controls, recording, communication and review.
How to prepare for CN1
Learn the principle, locate scenario evidence, explain why it matters, choose proportionate controls and show how actions will be prioritised and reviewed.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Hazard identification, people at risk, existing controls, risk evaluation, further controls, recording, communication and review.
Exam cue: Name the specific construction evidence before applying the principle or control.
Concept 2
Use specific site evidence, apply the control hierarchy and prioritise actions by the risk reduction they achieve.
Exam cue: Prefer prevention and collective protection before procedural or personal controls.
Concept 3
A suitable and sufficient assessment is proportionate, current, worker-informed and translated into owned actions.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Giving a generic hazard or control list without connecting it to people, task and site conditions.
Guardrail: Do not give a generic control list without linking it to the task, people, site conditions and verification method.
Treating a document, inspection or item of PPE as proof that the underlying risk is controlled.
Guardrail: Do not give a generic control list without linking it to the task, people, site conditions and verification method.
Memory anchors
CN1 2.4 · Assessing Risk
Hazard identification, people at risk, existing controls, risk evaluation, further controls, recording, communication and review.
Assessing Risk · decision cue
Use specific site evidence, apply the control hierarchy and prioritise actions by the risk reduction they achieve.
Assessing Risk · evidence check
A suitable and sufficient assessment is proportionate, current, worker-informed and translated into owned actions.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
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Move forward only after this module is stable.
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