Now you can close chemical deviations with a Risk Assessment. If a product is in breach with a certain requirement but has received the respective assessment, it will not appear in the sections with deviations.
Go to your project.
The project dashboard provides information on how many chemicals are not in compliance with the project's chemical requirements, how many of them have been assessed and how many remain.
Go to the Risk management module from the menu to the left.
The menu is then expanded and you can choose between chemicals that you have added to the project (My risk management) and chemicals that have been added by your subcontractors (Sub-contractors' risk management).
Click on My risk management.
Column Chemical requirement status shows whether the chemical is in compliance with the requirements or not. If you click on the arrow to the right of the column name, you can sort them so that the deviations come first.
In order to make a new risk management, click on the three dots to the right of the desired chemical and select Create Risk Management:
A new window appears and the system will guide you further through the process.
NB. You cannot interrupt the process and save the information along the way in order to continue afterwards. Once the risk management has started, it has to be brought to its end.
First you can choose between applying a risk management template or starting the risk assessment from scratch - click on Select template / Skip (check How to create a risk management template).
If you click on Select template you will see the window below appear which shows a list of the risk management templates you can choose from. Click on Select and the template will load. You can use the template as a basis for your new assessment. If you click on Skip you will then have to fill in the assessment parameters from scratch.
Start by choosing Frequency of use and Exposure level.
If you click on the question mark (?) symbol, you will see what the different options mean.
The system calculates automatically the value of the risk arising from the chemical's intended use, frequency of use and inherent hazards. The formula for calculating the risk was developed together with the working group for chemicals.
Click Next step.
You can now choose if the chemical can be eliminated.
If Yes, the process stops here. Write a comment and click on Finish.
If No, the process will continue further with the next step. Write a comment and click Next step.
You will then go over to Substitution of the chemical.
Click on Start substitution in order to find an alternative product.
Here you have two options:
- Perform a substitution using the company substitution groups. See the following user manuals to find out how to create a chemical substitution group and how to substitute a chemical using the company substitution groups.
- Search in goBIM database for a similar product.
If you choose to search for a similar product in our database, choose it from the list with results and click on Compare in order to compare the two (or more) products.
Select the respective Frequency of use and Exposure level on the alternative product/products.
The system calculates the alternative product's risk value. Based on that you can choose to make a substitution or not. In both cases you should write a comment. Click on Done.
If the chemical is substituted, the process is completed. If not, you will continue with the next step.
You come back to the main risk management process. You are asked to select technical measures in order to reduce the risk.
Click on the dropdown menu and select the ones you are able to take.
You can also write a comment, but it is not mandatory.
Click Next step.
You are then asked to select organizational measures in order to reduce the risk.
Click on the dropdown menu and select the ones you are able to take.
Write a comment when finished (not mandatory) and click Next step.
You are now asked to choose personal protective equipment. Click on Select personal protective equipment.
After you choose some kind of personal protective equipment, some options become inactive. This because it is not possible to combine them with the options you have chosen.
The more relevant options you choose, the more you reduce the risk value for health.
Write a conclusion and click on Done.
You come back to the main risk management process. Click on Next step.
Based on the personal protective equipment selected, the system calculates the overall risk status.
You can change the overall status and write a comment explaining why you think the risk is lower than the one calculated by the system. Click on Finish.
A summary of the whole process appears.
If you have a Company Admin role, you will also have the opportunity to save the Risk Management as a new Risk Management template. Click on Save as New Template, add a new to the template and save it.
If you click on Activity history at the very bottom, you will be able to check the audit trail - it show whether changes are made to the risk management of the chemical, when and by whom.
In the Chemical List from the menu on the left, the assessed chemicals are depicted with a shield icon.
