Development of a Risk Ranking List

The starting point for risk ranking is the risk identification process. This process asks the simple question "what could go wrong?" The HSE booklet "Five Steps to Risk Assessment"[4] gives some help in what to do, but concentrates quite naturally on risks to people. Industrial studies have shown that far greater losses would be ignored if we only focussed our attention here, so we need to extend our identification process to include hazards to and from:

1. People and tasks
2. Equipment, materials and processes
3. Environment