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Department of Chemical and Polymer Engineering - Risk Assessment

This risk assessment document contains the following information: 1) The risk assessment must be conducted by the Academic supervisor and reviewed annually or after any incidents or changes. 2) Hazards identified include injury from hands entering feed, electrical shock, hearing damage from noise, injury from high pressure leaks, and cuts from pipe leaks. Controls identified include use of gloves, insulating wires, noise controls, avoiding overfeeding, and safety valves. 3) The risk assessment aims to identify risks and hazards employees and students could be exposed to. Additional control measures are identified to further reduce risks rated as high.

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Department of Chemical and Polymer Engineering - Risk Assessment

This risk assessment document contains the following information: 1) The risk assessment must be conducted by the Academic supervisor and reviewed annually or after any incidents or changes. 2) Hazards identified include injury from hands entering feed, electrical shock, hearing damage from noise, injury from high pressure leaks, and cuts from pipe leaks. Controls identified include use of gloves, insulating wires, noise controls, avoiding overfeeding, and safety valves. 3) The risk assessment aims to identify risks and hazards employees and students could be exposed to. Additional control measures are identified to further reduce risks rated as high.

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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND POLYMER ENGINEERING – RISK ASSESSMENT

Reverse osmosis plant


Separation process Lab. Chemical Engineering Building

Preliminary notes
● Risk assessment must be conducted by Academic supervisor/Principal Investigator/Manager.
● Other team members and/or people involved or affected by the activities must be consulted in the construction of the risk assessment.
● Academic supervisor/PIs/Managers and other team members must ensure that the control arrangements and safe systems of work are followed.
● Academic supervisor/PIs/Managers must review this risk assessment at least annually, or in the event of incident, accident or changes to
operating/maintenance procedures/personnel.
● Review of risk assessment must be conducted by the Academic supervisor/PI/Manager and initialled and dated in the space provided.

Reference information
● Pakistan Environmental Protection Act, 1997 (Hazardous Substance Rules, 2003)

● Health and safety provisions under the Factories Act, 1934

Copies
● Original signed risk assessment must be retained by the Academic supervisor/PI/Manager in their office.
● A copy (and any appendices or cross-referenced documents) must be retained in the health and safety file in the workplace.
● The Academic Supervisor/PI/Manager must send a copy by email to the Faculty Safety Team/Head of Dept. before work begins.

Academic supervisor/PI/Manager’s approval


ACADEMIC SUP/PI/MANAGER PRINT NAME SIGNATURE EMAIL/TELEPHONE DATE

Countersignatures (other members of risk assessment team) [Only if applicable – see Faculty RA Procedures]
ROLE PRINT NAME SIGNATURE EMAIL/TELEPHONE DATE

 The aim of this risk assessment is to provide information on the types of risks and hazards that employees, students and others may be exposed to, arising from the activities described. 
IDENTIFICATION OF RISKS,CONTROLS & ACTIONS

Consequence/Severity of Harm (C) x Likelihood of harm being realised (L) = Risk Rating [see table following]

RISK RATING FINAL RISK


NEW RISK
WHO MAY BE WIITHOUT CURRENT CONTROL MEASURES (IF RATING ACTION BY
HAZARD TYPE RATING ADDITIONAL CONTROL MEASURES IDENTIFIED
HARMED? CONTROLS ANY) CxL = (& DEADLINE)
C x L = E,H,M,L,T
C x L = E,H,M,L,T E,H,M,L,T
Feed must be entered with
Injury to Hands while
Operators T utmost care gloves must be T Seeing damage T
entering Feed
worn.
Injury from Electrical
Shock when motor is Operators L L Insulating wires must be used T
being run
Everyone
Hearing damage T Hazard from Reboiler T Fire safet T
present
Leakage due to high
Pumps M Over Feeding must be avoided. L Low temperature is set T
pressure

Clothes may get Cuts Operators L Leakage of pipes L Safety Valve and proper drainage L

Consequence/Severity Likelihood of harm being realised (L)


of Harm (C) Remote
Possible Likely Highly probable
Virtual
Possibility Certainty

Minor injury or illness Trivial Trivial Low Low Low

Injury/illness requiring medical attention Trivial Low Medium Medium High

 The aim of this risk assessment is to provide information on the types of risks and hazards that employees, students and others may be exposed to, arising from the activities described. 
Injury/illness involving more than 3 days off work Low Medium Medium High High

Major injury or long term illness Low Medium High Extreme Extreme

Fatal injury/illness Low High High Extreme Extreme

RISK RATING = (C x L/S) ACTION & TIMESCALES

Work must not be started or continued until the risk level has been reduced. While the control measures
Extreme E should be cost-effective, the legal duty to reduce the risk is absolute. This means that if it is not possible to
reduce the risk, even with unlimited resources, then the work must not be started or must remain prohibited.

Work must not be started until the risk has been reduced. Considerable resources may have to be allocated
High H to reduce the risk. Where the risk involves work in progress, the problem should be remedied as quickly as
possible. (Action within 1 Week)

Efforts should be made to reduce the risk, but the costs of prevention should be carefully measured and
Medium M limited. Depending on the number of people exposed to the hazard risk reduction measures should normally
be implemented (Action within 1 Month)

Consideration should be given to cost-effective solutions, or improvements that impose minimal operating
Low L standards which will maintain Low level of risk. Monitoring is required to ensure that the controls are
maintained. (Review Assessment Annually)

No action is required to deal with trivial risks, and no documentary records need be kept (insignificant risk)
Trivial T (Review Assessment Annually)

Overall Proposed safety assessment:


 The aim of this risk assessment is to provide information on the types of risks and hazards that employees, students and others may be exposed to, arising from the activities described. 
 The high hazard impacts in workplace often become the cause of work accident and occupational disease.
 Develop and strictly apply special work permit system to work under water and prevent anyone from starting such work without getting
permit from the authorized person and after taking the required precautions.
 Prevent carrying out any task under water while suction pumps are working to avoid vortices and water currents.
 Provide right and suitable equipment for diving and rescue e.g. life lines in addition to training for divers and concerned workers.
 Add maintenance of pressurized system to the list of tasks that must not be done except after getting work permit from the authorized
person to ensure compliance with safety instructions such as isolating the power and discharging the stored pressure before opening the
system.
 Provide training to all concerned staff to ensure they are competent and familiar with the right way of assembly and disassembly of
components and how to check the unit before starting.
 Ensure that all used equipment and materials in pressurized systems is suitable to the water specification e.g. high salty water and that it
meets the manufacturer standard.

 The aim of this risk assessment is to provide information on the types of risks and hazards that employees, students and others may be exposed to, arising from the activities described. 

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