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Safety Focus of the Week: Risk Assessment Thinking
“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin
Having a plan before starting any task is essential to the success and safety of the project. And, the essence of good planning is performing a risk assessment because no plan can be expected to work perfectly unless it contains contingencies for failures in the basic assumptions of the plan. A risk assessment challenges these assumptions and allows for contingencies or an alternate method if the assessed risk/hazards are unacceptable. We typically apply risk assessment planning in our project estimating, planning, and daily safety evaluations. However, a risk assessment mentality is necessary throughout the entire process and not just during formal document preparation and planning.
