COVID-19 HIRA Risk Assessment of Manufacturing Industries | Coronavirus HIRA Example

Last updated on January 16th, 2023 at 09:07 am

COVID-19 HIRA Risk Assessment of Manufacturing Industries | Coronavirus HIRA Example:

The world is fighting against Coronavirus infection. In this pandemic situation, all types of industries are badly affected and surviving. But they are trying their best to prevent the spread of coronavirus by taking so many initiatives at their workplace. Here we will be helping you how to easily conduct a risk assessment for COVID-19 infection (COVID-19 HIRA Risk Assessment) in your workplace. If your organization has certified with ISO 45001 then you are compulsory to cover the health hazard and OH&S Risk.

Simple Ways to Conduct a Risk Assessment for COVID-N-19 and address in HIRA (Hazard Identification & Risk Assessment):

Below are the simple steps that can be covered by a competent person to conduct a risk assessment so that you can protect your interested parties (employees, visitors, workers, etc. those are involved in your business activities) from the spread of Coronavirus.

 Form a Team:

The First step is to form a team from a different and different function like operations, maintenance, quality, cooking, security, administration, etc. so that it will easy to cover all major processes and you can save the time of assessment because they know their workflow.

Identify the Health Hazard:

Now you have to think about that if COVID-N-19 positive infected persons, asymptomatic persons have entered into your factory then what would be the health risk, and how would they affect the non-infected interested parties.

You have to think widely, about the high traffic area, common touchpoint, common surface contact, work layout, seating arrangement at the office, canteen, restroom, travelling, transportation, and the PPE being used by the person entering and working at the workplace, etc.

Assess the risks:

Now you have to assess risk by its severity, likelihood, and detection method. And next, the organization shall establish the control mechanism.  And finally, need to address the entire thing in HIRA format & time to time review need to be done.

Example of COVID-19 HIRA Risk Assessment:

How to Implement the Recommended Precautionary /Control measures in your factory:

As we know that in this pandemic situation it’s a big challenge to all manufacturing industries to protect your employees and to control the spread of COVID-N-19 infection at their premises. But however, the organization should implement the precautionary /control measures to protect their staff. So below are some examples of the recommended precautionary /control measure.

Thermal Screening: At the time of the entry of interested parties into your factory premises you can measure the body temperature by using the measuring device.

Use of PPE: Use of PPE can control the spread of coronavirus, and you can protect yourself as well.

Social Distancing: It’s more important to obey social distancing rules. It can help you broadly to prevent the spread of infection. The organization can arrange a special seating arrangement at the office, canteen, meeting room, restroom, etc. with a specified distance.

Disinfection: Periodically disinfection /Sanitization at work-place, canteen, office, restroom, meeting hall, Common contact surface, etc. and you can install contactless sanitization device for hand sanitization.

Avoid contact of Common touch surface: The organization can arrange an alternative method to like face recognition attendance system instead of a biometric fingerprint attendance system. And also you can instruct your employee and staff to use the foot for door opening and closing.

Avoid Social gathering for meetings: the organization can arrange the Virtual Meeting /Online Meeting like VC, Webinars.

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