Risk Assessment for Streakers Hair and Beauty Salon

Identifying the hazards

Task:

Streakers Hair and Beauty Salon has just been sold to a new owner. The owner plans to appoint one of the current staff as manager, but he also wants to make sure that Streakers is a safe place to work. He is not a hairdresser himself and is uncertain about the safety of all the different types of equipment, so he decides to undertake a risk assessment. You have been asked to prepare a report on the following matters.

Streakers Hair and Beauty Salon has just been sold to a new owner. The owner plans to appoint one of the current staff as manager, but he also wants to make sure that Streakers is a safe place to work. He is not a hairdresser himself and is uncertain about the safety of all the different types of equipment, so he decides to undertake a risk assessment. You have been asked to prepare a report on the following matters.

1.Identify the plant and chemical hazards likely to be found at Streakers.
2. Assuming no controls are in place, identify the three highest-risk plant hazards and the three highest-risk chemical hazards at Streakers. Justify your choice of hazards.
3.Assess the risks in relation to the three plant hazards and the three chemical hazards.
4.Decide on appropriate control measures to reduce the risk of each of the plant and chemical hazards. Use the hierarchy of controls when selecting your controls.
5.When you have decided on the controls, reassess the risk and decide whether the new risk rating is acceptable.
6.Check whether the risk ratings conform to the ALARP principle. Is it cost-effective to introduce these controls? Is the risk too great not to implement them? Include recommendations in your report.
7.Include a table which indicates your assessment of the likelihood (A-E in Table 6.3 of Archer et al. 2018), consequences (1-5 in Table 6.2 in Archer et al. 2018) and total risk rating (low, medium, high, very high in Table 6.4 in Archer et al. 2018) for each hazard, with and without your recommended controls. That is, you need to determine the likelihood, consequences and total risk rating for each hazard when no controls are used, and then reassess when the controls are implemented to see if the risk would be reduced. Include your recommended controls in the table.
8. Develop a brief plant-purchasing policy for future plant purchases. Refer to the pre- and post-purchasing tips on page 135 of Archer et al. (2018).
When identifying, assessing and recommending controls for chemical hazards, you must use relevant safety data sheets for each chemical hazard. When identifying, assessing and recommending controls for all hazards, you must use relevant guides, standards or codes of practice for the hairdressing and beauty industry. Use Singapore materials where possible; otherwise you must use materials from another jurisdiction or jurisdictions. There are relevant materials available online on the hairdressing industry from safety authorities in Europe, UK and several Australian states.
Ensure all ideas and material in the report derived from sources are appropriately referenced. In your list of references, include URL links to the safety data sheets you use in the report.
This assignment must be submitted in Word document format. An RMIT cover sheet is no longer required for assignments submitted to Canvas. However, a title page with the title of the report, course name, student name and number, tutor’s name, and tutorial day and time is required. An executive summary is not required for a report of this length.