What is a safety risk profile?

A structured view of the hazards a specific operation is actually exposed to, ranked by the risk they present. It is the basis for deciding where safety effort goes, and it is what makes safety objectives specific to an operation rather than generic.

How is a risk profile different from a hazard register?

A hazard register lists hazards as they are identified, over time. A risk profile is a deliberate assessment of the operation as a whole, usually built at a point in time and reviewed periodically, to establish the overall shape of the risk being carried.

Risk profile and objectives

The hazards that apply to this operation

Every operation inherits a generic list of hazards from somewhere. A risk profile is the work of establishing which of them actually apply to you, which ones you are exposed to most, and what your safety objectives should be as a result.

Why it matters

Without a profile, safety effort goes wherever the last incident was, which is rarely where the next one will be. Every operation has finite attention, and the default way of spending it is recency: whatever just happened gets a new procedure, while the exposures nobody has had a scare from yet get nothing at all. What this produces is a defensible answer to where the next hour of effort should go, one that holds up when somebody asks why there and not somewhere else.

What you end up with

A risk profile built from your operation, not a template
Safety objectives that follow from it
A basis for deciding where effort goes

Questions

Questions about risk profile and objectives

What is a safety risk profile?: A structured view of the hazards a specific operation is actually exposed to, ranked by the risk they present. It is the basis for deciding where safety effort goes, and it is what makes safety objectives specific to an operation rather than generic.
How is a risk profile different from a hazard register?: A hazard register lists hazards as they are identified, over time. A risk profile is a deliberate assessment of the operation as a whole, usually built at a point in time and reviewed periodically, to establish the overall shape of the risk being carried.

Where to start

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