Risk Assessment Tools & Techniques

SB Net offers a comprehensive suite of risk assessment tools and techniques designed to help organisations identify, evaluate, and mitigate risks across various operational areas. Each technique is tailored to address specific types of risks, ensuring that your organisation can take a proactive approach to safety and compliance. Below is an overview of each risk assessment technique supported by our platform.

JSA is a technique that involves analysing individual job tasks to identify potential hazards and implement control measures to reduce the risk of injury or incidents. This technique is essential for creating a safer work environment by addressing risks at the task level.

Key Features:
- Task Breakdown: Break down job tasks into specific steps to identify associated hazards.
- Hazard Identification: Systematically identify and evaluate hazards associated with each task step.
- Control Measures: Implement control measures to mitigate identified hazards, ensuring a safer work environment.

Benefits:
- Increased awareness of job-specific hazards.
- Enhanced safety measures tailored to specific tasks.
- Reduced risk of workplace injuries and incidents.

BIA is a critical process for identifying and evaluating the potential effects of disruptions to business operations. This technique helps organisations prioritise recovery efforts by assessing the impact of different types of disruptions on critical business functions.

Key Features:
- Critical Function Identification: Identify the most critical business functions that must be prioritised during a disruption.
- Impact Assessment: Evaluate the potential impact of disruptions on these critical functions, including financial, operational, and reputational effects.
- Recovery Planning: Develop strategies to ensure the rapid recovery of critical functions in the event of a disruption.

Benefits:
- Improved organisational resilience and preparedness.
- Clear understanding of the impact of disruptions on business operations.
Effective prioritisation of recovery efforts to minimise downtime and losses.
- SB Net’s Risk Assessment Tools & Techniques are designed to provide your organisation with the insights and strategies needed to manage risk effectively across all levels of operation. By leveraging these tools, you can proactively identify potential risks, implement targeted mitigation strategies, and create a safer, more resilient organisation.

The 5x5 Risk Matrix is a powerful tool used to assess and prioritise risks based on the likelihood of their occurrence and the severity of their consequences. This matrix provides a visual representation of risks, allowing you to quickly identify high-priority areas that require immediate attention.

Key Features:
- Likelihood and Severity Assessment: Rate risks on a scale of 1 to 5 for both likelihood and severity, creating a matrix that categorises risks into different levels of priority.
- Visual Risk Mapping: Easily visualise risks across your operations, helping you to focus resources on the most critical areas.
Proactive Mitigation Planning: Use the matrix to develop targeted mitigation strategies for high-priority risks.

Benefits:
- Improved decision-making with clear prioritisation of risks.
- Enhanced ability to allocate resources effectively.
- Increased awareness and understanding of risk levels within your organisation.

FTA is a top-down, deductive analysis method used to identify the root causes of system failures. By mapping out potential faults and their causes in a tree structure, FTA helps organisations understand the pathways that can lead to a failure, allowing for more effective prevention strategies.

Key Features:
- Fault Tree Diagrams: Create visual representations of potential faults and their causes.

Root Cause Analysis:
- Drill down to the root causes of system failures, providing a clear understanding of where issues originate.
- Probabilistic Analysis: Assess the probability of different failure scenarios to prioritise mitigation efforts.


Benefits:
- Clear identification of root causes for targeted corrective actions.
- Enhanced ability to prevent system failures before they occur.
- Improved reliability and safety of complex systems.

FMEA is a systematic approach used to identify potential failure modes within a process or system and analyse their effects on overall operations. This technique is particularly valuable in manufacturing, engineering, and other industries where process reliability is critical.

Key Features:
- Failure Mode Identification: Identify potential failure modes at each step of a process.
- Impact Analysis: Evaluate the potential effects of each failure mode on the overall system.
- Risk Priority Number (RPN): Calculate the RPN by assessing the severity, occurrence, and detection of each failure mode, helping prioritise which issues to address first.

Benefits:
- Enhanced reliability and safety of processes and systems.
- Systematic approach to identifying and mitigating potential failures.
- Improved product quality and operational efficiency.

BBS is an approach that focuses on modifying unsafe behaviours in the workplace through observation, feedback, and positive reinforcement. This technique is cantered on the idea that most workplace incidents are the result of human behaviour, and by changing these behaviours, incidents can be significantly reduced.

Key Features:
- Behavioural Observations: Systematically observe employee behaviours to identify unsafe practices.
- Feedback and Coaching: Provide immediate feedback and coaching to employees, encouraging safer behaviours.
- Positive Reinforcement: Use positive reinforcement to encourage the adoption of safe work practices.

Benefits:
- Reduction in workplace incidents by addressing unsafe behaviours.
- Enhanced safety culture through continuous observation and feedback.
Increased employee engagement in safety initiatives.