Using the impacts feature for Risk Assessments

Overview

Damstra Safety gives customers the ability to score each impact individually after control measures have been applied to a risk, providing a more accurate method for calculating the Residual Risk Rating.
However in order to take advantage of this functionality it must first be enabled and user profiles updated.

Below is the process for:

• Enabling Post-Control Scoring functionality
• Updating User Group Profile
• Adding New Risk Assessments
• Modify Existing Risk Assessments

Procedure 

Enable Post Control Scoring

From your Settings menu:

• Go to the General section.
• Select Options and Preferences.

From the resulting Options and Preferences:

• Scroll to the bottom of the form.
• Click/Turn On the Post-control scoring for Impacts check box.
• Click Save.

Update User Group Profile 

From your Settings menu:

• Go to the Users section.
• Select User Group Profiles.

From the resulting Edit Groups:

• Select the appropriate Access Group.
• Click Edit Group Access.

From the resulting User Authorization Groups Pop-Up.

• Go to Risk and Open the Tree.
• Open the Risk Assessment Tree.
• Click the "X" to the left of Impacts Until it displays as "W".
• Click Save.
  
  

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The normal risk assessment process is generally made up of Adding new Risks, Inputting Risk analysis data/Scoring and adding Control Measures to manage the risk.

Now you can apply the scoring algorithm post implementation of control measures, providing a more accurate method for calculating the Residual Risk Rating.

What has changed?:

Adding a "New" Risk Assessment

At the Add Control step you can now stipulate which Impact has been addressed by the Control Measure.
This is done via an additional drop-down field called "Impact Addressed".

• Click on the drop-down.
• Select the applicable impact.
• Click Save.

• Result: The Control measure is now added to your control Library just as before.
  
  

Important Note: Adding a Corrective Risk Score is no longer done at this point. This is now pre- populated into a new "Impacts" tab.

Add Corrective Risk Score 

From the "Impacts" tab.

• Expand the required Impact to review the control measure(s).
• Click Edit on the Impact selected.

• Proceed to re-scoring the Probability and Consequence for the corrective risk score.
• Click Save Impact.
  

Result: This populates the Corrective Risk Rating and calculates the post-control Residual Risk Rating, which will relate to the highest of the scores.

Modify an "Existing" Risk Assessment

This new method of scoring post implementing control measures can also be applied to Existing Risk Assessments.

From the "Control Measures" tab.

• Click on the Actions button on the control required measure.
• Click Edit. in the table of controls.

In the resulting "Add/Edit Control" section.

• Click on the impact addressed drop-down.
• Select the applicable impact.
• Click Save Raw Risk.

From the "Impacts" tab.

• Expand the required Impact to review the control measure(s).
• Double Click on the Impact selected.

• Proceed to re-scoring the Probability and Consequence for the corrective risk score.
• Click Save Changes.
  

Result: This populates the Corrective Risk Rating and calculates the post-control Residual Risk Rating, which will relate to the highest of the scores.