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31 March 2025
Strengthening critical risk controls
Northpower’s critical risk control management programme remains at the forefront of our health, safety strategy.
Our first step was to define our critical risks – risks that pose a likelihood of causing serious harm or a fatality and implementing critical risk control management for each of these ten critical risks, which includes applying a five-step process to assess each risk and identify the related critical controls.
This year has seen us focus on:
- Establishing dedicated SharePoint pages to house a ‘one-stop shop’ place for important details and accessible online resources about the critical risks and the controls for all our people to access from their digital devices.
- Developing safety leadership training for operational leads, to enhance their ability to manage organisational risk profiles and critical controls effectively.
- Beginning to implement our Control Management Action Plans – improving on existing controls or introducing new controls.
- Holding working groups with field staff and operational representatives to identify controls for the following key critical risks: personal security, fatigue, confined spaces, and substances hazardous to health, verifying the presence of these controls and discussing effective application with workers in the field.
How our approach has developed over time
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