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Supervisor’s Guide to Field Level Risk Assessment Part 2: Training OthersTime Objective Content Method Helps. • Ask, “What is the next step?” Identify theHazards. How do you identify the hazards?Identify job steps and the hazards associatedwith each step.05 minutes Discuss the kinds ofhazards that arepossible on a worksite.• Ask, “What kind of hazards should we belooking for? Record group’s ideas on theflipchart.• Compare their list with the list on the overhead.These include equipment, heights, trenches, heat,cold, electricity, explosions, fires, radioactivity,chemicals, noise, muscle strains, microbes, sharpobjects, vibration, stress, and many more. Givespecific examples from the work that you do.• Ask, “ What is the next step after we identify thehazards?” We assess the risk.• Ask, “How do we assess risk?” The seriousnessand the likelihood of each hazard has to beassessed. The Risk Assessment Tool can be usedto determine the degree of risk• Ask, “ Why is it important to identify the degreeof risk for each hazard?” We need to put controlsin place for all hazards that represent a high ora medium level of risk.Discuss the steps of Field Level RiskAssessmentPresent and Discuss kinds of hazards Overhead#19Kinds ofHazardsConstruction Owners Association of Alberta 24