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• u-Safe Introduction
• Step One: Hazard Identification
• Step Two: Risk Categorisation and Assessment
• Step Three: Risk Treatments and Controls
• Step Four: Setting Minimal Acceptable Standards
• Step Five: Retraining
• Step Six: Compliance Auditing
• Step Seven: Continually Improving

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Civil Explosives - Health and safety - Step Three: Risk Treatments and Controls

Nearly all of the identified risks were subject to existing control measures, such as the use of fall prevention or protection equipment and explosive pump planned maintenance schedules. Following the “hierarchy of controls approach,” existing risk treatments were categorised into either hard or soft controls, soft controls essentially being those at the bottom of the hierarchy (administrative and personal protective equipment) and hard controls being those toward the top of the hierarchy (physical barriers such as guards rails on ISO containers or PDO interlocks on trucks). Where possible, both a hard and soft risk control was allocated to all medium to high-risk events.



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