HIRA Procedure for Construction Safety
HIRA Procedure for Construction Safety
2023
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1 PURPOSE
1.1 The purpose of this procedure is to describe Karo Platinum construction process of
hazard identification, risks/opportunities evaluation/assessment and determination
of necessary controls on the construction project.
2 SCOPE
2.1 This procedure shall be applicable to all Karo Platinum construction activities and
services.
3.1 Abbreviations
3.2 Definitions
3.2.1 Abnormal Condition - work performed under non-routine or irregular
activities.
3.2.2 Controls - are the precautions taken to eliminate/manage a risk.
3.2.3 Frequency - the estimated number of times an event may occur.
3.2.4 Hazard - source or situation with a potential to cause losses, whether they
are human, material, financial, environmental or any other business
interest.
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4.1 References
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5.1 The Head of Construction (HOC) or his designate shall ensure that the procedure
is implemented and adhered to across the construction site.
5.2 The Health & Safety Manager - Construction or his designate co-ordinates and
facilitates hazard identification and risk / opportunity assessment process in liaison
with Construction Managers while H&S Practitioners co-ordinate the
implementation of this procedure at construction sites.
5.3 The Head of Section and H&S Practitioners shall ensure that a multi-disciplinary
team carries out risk assessments in their areas of responsibility.
5.4 It is the responsibility of the Head of Section to implement control measures that
will address the risks and opportunities.
5.5 All employees shall be responsible for carrying out daily safe task instruction
(DSTI), continuous risk assessments and participating in issue based and baseline
risk assessments as maybe required from time to time.
6 PROHIBITIONS
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7.1 Risks
01 Exposure to construction Failure to identify hazards, Use of the Hazards Identification and
hazards risks, opportunities and Assessment of Risks and
control measures within the Opportunities Procedure.
construction site.
02 Exposure to construction Failure to monitor, analyze Use of the Hazards Identification and
hazards and evaluate risk and Assessment of Risks and
opportunities Opportunities Procedure.
03 Exposure to construction Failure to recall and Use of the Hazards Identification and
hazards continually improve on risk Assessment of Risks and
control measures. Opportunities Procedure.
7.2 Opportunities
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8 PROCESS
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8.1.3 Within the defined scope of the Karo Platinum Construction, sections
shall determine/identify the hazards of its activities, products and
services that it can control and that it influences and their associated
risks and opportunities considering a life cycle perspective.
8.1.4 All identified hazards and the associated risks/business opportunities
are assessed and evaluated.
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8.2.6 The level and type of consequences for each risk on each factor shall
be determined using the risk rating matrix.
8.2.7 Due to the close relationship between different factors (for example,
safety incidents attract legal penalties), the overall level of
consequence for each risk should be taken on a worst-case scenario
that is the highest level of consequence scored.
8.2.8 The inherent and residual risk level scores should then be determined
by plotting on the likelihood and consequence scale of the 5 x 5 Risk
Matrix (refer to KP-CON-OHS-SP01-F05). The classification of the
risk is the position were Likelihood and consequence meet on the
matrix and are as follows.
[Link] Very Low risk is Blue
[Link] Low Risk is Green
[Link] Medium Risk is Yellow
[Link] High Risk is Orange/Amber
[Link] Extreme Risk is Red
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8.3.6 Controls for significant risks (rating: medium to extreme) shall form the
framework for system objectives and action plans according to the
Setting of Objectives and Action Plans Procedure (KP-CON-OHS-
SP08).
8.3.7 Actions to enhance opportunities shall be documented for each
opportunity identified.
8.3.8 On an ongoing basis the additional actions assigned to significant
risks are monitored through evaluations, surveys, PJOs as
appropriate in line with the monitoring and measurement plan.
8.3.9 The Contractor shall, in writing, clearly explain how each safety risk
assessed to be significant will be addressed to eliminate or reduce it
to a tolerable level and submit it for approval by Karo Platinum
Management before site establishment. This may be through method
statements or written operational control procedures. Associated
responsibilities and authorities shall be clearly defined.
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8.4.2 Issue based risk assessments shall be conducted for the following
activities:
[Link] High risk activities as identified by the Baseline Risk
Assessment.
[Link] When there are changes in work, work procedures and/or
operational systems.
[Link] When there are changes in tools, equipment and/or
machinery.
[Link] When there are changes in legislation.
[Link] When dealing with pillars, stability, scaffold and/or support
systems.
[Link] When there are new chemicals and/or energy sources.
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[Link] Each and every risk that is identified in the HIRA process
must be verbally conveyed to every employee associated with
the task.
[Link] Contractor Baseline risk assessments and outcomes to be
incorporated into the Contractors Induction Program and each
employee to be familiarized and trained on the expected
outcomes prior to being allowed to commence activities on
the project.
[Link] Contents of Task Specific and Continuous Risk Assessment
processes shall be done in the format of a toolbox talk but
does not replace the toolbox talk entirely.
[Link] Each employee must sign in recognition of understanding the
risk associated with the tasks according to Competence and
Awareness Procedure. (KP-CON-OHS-SP08).
[Link] Every risk identified must be explained to the relevant
employees.
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9 PERFOMANCE INDICATORS
9.1 Hazard/Risk/Opportunities Registers for construction.
10 RECORDS
11 ATTACHMENTS
11.1 Baseline Risk Register (KP-CON-OHS-SP01-F01)
11.2 Issue Based Risk Register (KP-CON-OHS-SOP01-F02)
11.3 Daily Safet Task Instruction (KP-CON-OHS-SP01-F03)
11.4 Process Flow Diagram/Chart (KP-CON-OHS-SP01-F04)
11.5 Risk Rating Matrix (KP-CON-OHS-SP01-F05)
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