The Risk Management Pocket Guide assists small mines and quarries address the three main steps to managing risks:

• identifying hazards,
• assessing risks,
• choosing the best controls for those risks.

The kit is produced in three parts including a pocket book designed to fit into a shirt pocket for everyday on-the-job use, a more detailed guide and a training CD.

The kit includes a hazard reporting and feedback notebook and hazard management process prompt cards to remind workers of common hazards they may encounter in day-to-day operations.

As part of the kit there is also a 44-page practical guide Risk Management Pocket Guide: a memory jogger for people on the job in the mining and quarrying industry, especially in smaller operations and a CD training presentation kit with notes used in the Refining Your Safety Management Plan workshops.

Published by the NSW Trade and Investment, Mineral Resources