Safety Spectrum
Risk Assessment Module
Know your risks, rate them, and control them, across the whole organization.
Know your risks and what controls them
From hazard to residual risk
Build risk assessments for buildings, equipment, projects, departments or job types, rate each hazard before and after controls, and publish the result to the people who need to review it.
What is included
Features
Build the assessment
Assess any asset from situations, hazards and controls, drawing on shared libraries.
- Assess buildings, spaces and outdoor areas, equipment and machinery, projects and job sites, departments, or job types and people, and tie each assessment to the specific assets and job types it covers.
- Build each assessment from situations (tasks, work conditions and activities), the hazards within each situation, and the controls for each hazard.
- Draw on organization-wide situation, hazard and control libraries, or create new entries on the fly and promote them to the library for reuse.
- Start from scratch, or base a new assessment on an existing one and copy its situations, hazards and controls.
Rate the risk
Inherent and residual scores from likelihood and severity, before and after controls.
- Inherent and residual risk scores from likelihood and severity ratings, before and after controls.
- Severity broken down by category where needed: injury, financial, reputational, regulatory, environmental and business continuity, with level-by-level guidance.
- Controls organized by the hierarchy of controls: elimination and substitution first, then engineering, administrative and PPE controls, each with effort and impact ratings.
- Exposure frequency, risk stability, acceptable-tolerance and ALARP questions, with action items recorded on the assessment.
Risk register and heat map
Every hazard plotted and ranked, filtered to what each user may see.
- A dashboard heat map plots likelihood against severity, colour-coded by risk tier, with the number of hazards at each score.
- Switch between inherent and residual scores or a single severity category; click a cell to filter the register.
- The register ranks hazards by overall risk exposure score (risk score times exposure frequency), with full situation detail one click away.
- Associate risks with specific departments or job types; every user sees only the assessments their permissions allow, and manager-level filters narrow the view further.
Publish, review and sign
Versioned publishing with team review, signatures and expiry reminders.
- Versioned publishing: a printable report ordered by highest risk, a change log of every field changed since the last version, and previous versions kept on file.
- Assessment team review with messaging and signatures before publishing; expiry dates trigger notifications and tasks for the next review, on whatever cycle you set.
- Personnel review groups built by rules on department, job type, location and other attributes, on a one-time or recurring schedule, with sign-and-acknowledge records, status emails and a team review matrix.
- Publish to the whole organization or to manager-level users only, through the risk assessment library on each person’s start page.
Risk control assessments
Check a real asset against the assessment and score the controls actually in place.
- Check a real asset (a specific building, for example) against the assessment: confirm which situations exist there and which controls are actually in place.
- Assign the assessment to a person with a due date; they complete it from a link in the email.
- An asset-specific residual risk score is calculated from the controls actually implemented, so assets can be compared by the risk that remains.
- Record action items for missing controls; forms autosave, so an assessment can be set aside and finished later.
Shared by every module
Every module runs on the Safety Spectrum core system: role-based access, track-changes history, automated notifications and tasks, offline forms, file uploads and customizable dashboards.
See Safety Spectrum in action
Schedule a live demo of Safety Spectrum, tailored to your organization’s safety program.
Who we work with
- Municipalities and regional governments
- Universities and colleges
- School districts
- Government institutions and First Nations
- Private-sector organizations
Large Canadian organizations run their safety programs on Safety Spectrum. References are available on request.