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HIRAC REV 1 DATE 01st Mar 11 INITIATOR Jennifer Chow

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APPROVED BY : DEPARTMENT DESIGNATION NAME SIGNATURE DATE

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HIRAC
1.0 PURPOSE

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This procedure provides guidelines for hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control (HIRAC) as part of the company Occupational Safety and Health Management System (OSHMS). It is also to establish the principle of determination whether or not given hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control processes are suitable and sufficient, such as proper and adequate control of risk can be developed to prevent harm to all employees and concerned personnel. The methodology for hazard identification and risk assessment shall be defined with respect to its scope, nature and timing to ensure that it is proactive. The procedure also provide for the classification of risks categories and identification of those risks that are to be eliminated or controlled. 2.0 SCOPE The scope covers: All work activities carried by company (including employee and subcontractors); Routine or non-routine type of work; All facilities available at workplace, either provided by UTM or other parties;

3.0 REFERENCES: OHSAS 18001: 2007 (Clause 4.3.1) OSH Manual

4.0 DEFINITIONS 4.1 OSHMS Part of the overall management system that facilitates the management system of the OH&S risks associated with the business of the UTM. These includes company structure, planning activities, responsibilities, practices, procedures, processes and resources for developing, implementing. 4.2 HIRAC Hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control.

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HIRAC
4.3 Hazard

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Source or situation with a potential harm in terms of human injury or ill health, damage to property, damage to the workplace environment, or a combination of these. 4.4 Hazard Identification Process of identifies the existence of hazard and defining its characteristics.

4.5 Risk Combination of the likelihood and the consequences of a specified hazardous event (accident or incident).

4.6 Risk Assessment Overall process of evaluating the degree of risk and deciding whether or not risk is tolerable. 4.7 Acceptable Risk Risk at a level where can be accepted by COMPANY based on the legal obligations and OH&S Policy

5.0 RESPONSIBILITY 5.1 EHS Engineer shall be responsible for the establishing, implementing and maintaining the procedure.

5.2 HODs shall be responsible to identify the hazard and carry out the assessment of its associated risk.

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6.0 FLOW CHART

PLANNING RISK ASSESSMENT HIRAC RESPONSIBILITY 1 HOD / EHS Engineer Identify Work Activities, Product and Services used INTERFACE Work Instruction / Relevant Process Flow

HOD / EHS Engineer

2 Conduct Hazard Identification

HIRAC Register

3 HOD / EHS Engineer Conduct Risk Assessment HIRAC Register

4 SHO Decide Risk Category Risk Assessment Criteria

HOD / EHS ENGINEER

5 Determine control measure / propose actions

Proposed control / OSH Program

HOD / EHS Engineer

6 Monitoring of EHS program / Operational Control

OSH Program Operational Control

7 HOD / EHS Engineer Review And Update

HIRAC EHS Program

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7.0 Procedure

PROCESS PROCEDURE 1.0 Identify Work Activities . Process / Facility / Maintenance Activities including Routine and non-routine

RESPONSIBILITY

HOD

2.0 Hazard Identification Hazard should be identified for all works activities. Hazards that have been identified and classified under negligible potential harm should not be documented or given future consideration. HOD must ensure to document the hazard and take into consideration of the followings elements such as: Source of harm Who will affected by those harm How this harm could occur Applicable regulatory requirements HOD

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PROCESS

RESPONSIBILITY

3.0 Risk Assessment It is essential to make assessment of risk associated with each hazard, assuming that planned or existing controls are in place. The risk from the hazard should be determined by estimating the potential likelihood of harm and the severity that harm will occur. Estimation of potential likelihood shall consider: Refer to HIRAC register format. Risk estimations should take into account for all the people exposed to a hazard, thus any given hazard is more serious if it affects a greater number of people. Some of the larger risks may be associated with an occasional task carried just by one person for e.g. Operation and Maintenance of boiler, chemical handling, operation of the waste water treatment plant, etc. HOD

Risk estimation shall also consider the unsafe acts by personnel who: Unaware of hazards Do not have knowledge or skills to do the task Underestimate risks Overlook safety procedures.

Consequences of unplanned event and human error is included in integral part of the hazard identification and risk assessment process.

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PROCESS Establishment of potential severity shall considered: Refer to HIRAC register. Parts of the body likely to be affected. Nature of harm such as Slightly Harmful, Harmful or extremely Harmful. Information obtained about work activities that have been clarified is a vital input to this risk assessment in making a consideration of the Potential Severity. Risk management measures should reflect the principle of elimination of risk where practicable, follows in turn of risk reduction, either by reducing the probability of occurrence of harm or the severity of the potential harm. 4.Decide Risk Category Decision of the risk status shall be obtained from the Risk Rating. (Refer to the HIRAC Register) Risk Rating is the multiplying result of likelihood and severity. Judge whether planned or existing OH&S precautions (if any) are sufficient to eliminate or reduce the hazard. Risk Category shall describe and determine the risk status. and required action, Acceptable ( Low Risk) Moderate (Medium Risk) Unacceptable (High Risk) Control effort and urgency shall be proportional to the risk that has been identified.

RESPONSIBILITY

HOD / SHO

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PROCESS Risk that is under acceptable can be endured by the organizations having regard to its legal obligations and its own OH&S Policy. Unacceptable risk shall require immediate action to control the hazard. (Refer to HIRAC Register) 5.Determine Control Measure/Propose Action The additional control measure / proposed control is to eliminate or minimize the risk, in line with OSH Policy and Objectives Legal requirements, regulations, best practices (if any) Organization should ensure that new and existing controls remain in place are effective The actions may include: Develop OSH Programs (eg: improvement program) Establish operational control (eg: procedure and work instruction) Providing training and competency development Provide or improve the protective devices (eg: PPE)

RESPONSIBILITY

HOD / SHO

6. Monitoring of EHS Program/Operational Control HOD / EHS Engineer The person in charge shall carry out the control measure as identified. The HOD/ EHS Engineer shall follow up with the person-in-charge to ensure completion and compliance according to date line.

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PROCESS

RESPONSIBILITY

7. Review & Up-date The HIRAC review and approval should be done at defined interval (eg: Management review) The period shall depend on the following considerations: Nature of the hazard Magnitude of the risk Changes from normal operation Changes in raw material, chemical etc. The review should also take place if changes within the organization call into question the validity of the existing assessments. Such changes can include the following elements (Refer to Management of Change Procedure) Expansion, Construction, Restructuring Repositioning of responsibilities Changes in legal requirements Changes in other requirements (eg: customer or corporate requirements) Changes to method of making a pattern of a behaviour. HOD

Head of Department

HOD / HSE Head

8.Attachment Attachment 1 Attachment 2 Attachment 3 Attachment 4 Attachment 5 List of disciplines (Activities/Product/Services). Likelihood Table Severity Table Risk Category Table Risk Category Detail Explanation