Assessing Risk
The five-step process, vulnerable people, legal and guidance sources, risk evaluation, hierarchy of control, recording and review.
How to prepare for GNC1 and GNC2
Learn the principle, locate workplace evidence, explain the risk or duty, select proportionate controls and show how action will be owned and reviewed.
Core concepts
Concept 1
The five-step process, vulnerable people, legal and guidance sources, risk evaluation, hierarchy of control, recording and review.
Exam cue: Identify the workplace evidence, people exposed, hazard mechanism and applicable duty before selecting a control.
Concept 2
Define activity and hazard, identify affected people, evaluate current controls and risk, add higher-order measures and review.
Exam cue: Prefer elimination and engineered or collective protection before procedural controls and PPE, then verify effectiveness.
Concept 3
A hazard list or numeric score alone is not a suitable and sufficient risk assessment.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Giving a generic hazard or control list without connecting it to the task, people and workplace conditions.
Guardrail: Do not give a generic control list without linking it to the task, people, environment, owner and verification method.
Treating a document, certificate, 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, environment, owner and verification method.
Memory anchors
GNC 3.4 · Assessing Risk
The five-step process, vulnerable people, legal and guidance sources, risk evaluation, hierarchy of control, recording and review.
Assessing Risk · decision cue
Define activity and hazard, identify affected people, evaluate current controls and risk, add higher-order measures and review.
Assessing Risk · evidence check
A hazard list or numeric score alone is not a suitable and sufficient risk assessment.
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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