Lecture 10 Risk Analysis And New Innovations. What is a Risk? “Something with the potential to cause harm”

Lecture 10

Risk Analysis

And

New Innovations

What is a Risk?

“Something with the potential to cause harm”

MAINTAINING THE HSE CORPORATE RISKREGISTER

Guidance Document

The Risk Register enables the HSE to

• Assess its key risks and determine its priorities

• Develop the HSE Corporate and National Service Plans based onthe organisation’s most important priorities and developmentneeds.

• Anticipate likely areas of impact and mitigate where possible upto and including transferring resource from lesser priorities.

• Track the management response to identified risks.

• Communicate the HSE risk profile to stakeholders includingDoH&C

• Inform audit planning process,

Risk Management

• Risk management is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks (defined in ISO 31000

• It is defined as the effect of uncertainty on objectives, whether positive or negative)

• Followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities.

• Developing and Populating a Risk Register Best Practice Guidance Revision booklet prepared by the HSE Office of Quality & Risk to aid a service to establish a direction for managing its risks.

• The risk register consequently provides managers with a high level overview of the services’ risk status at a particular point in time and becomes a dynamic tool for the monitoring of actions to be taken to mitigate risk.

• This guidance is in line with the AS/NZS 4360:2004 Standard and is consistent with best practice

What is risk assessment

• The process of identifying, assessing, and reducing risks to an acceptable level– Defines and controls threats and vulnerabilities– Implements risk reduction measures

• Three elements to risk ….– Risk assessment: determine what the risks are– Risk management: evaluating alternatives for

mitigating the risk– Risk communication: presenting this material in an

understandable way to decision makers and/or the public

Risk Analysis

• Risk comprises two components: the likelihood of the occurrence of

harm the consequences of that harm.

• In the home, the social and psychological harms are as important as the physical ones.

• The importance of the harm (e.g., injury) is conditioned by its consequences (e.g., distress, costly medical treatment).

Risk assessment

• In assistive technology risk Management is the protection of user

• AT is primarily about promotion of health and alleviation of disability –

• your first responsibility is not to make things worse… BS EN ISO 14971:2007

• AT devices - Application of risk management to AT devices Some key concepts

• Risk management plan• Risk analysis process• Identification of hazards• Estimation of the risk(s) for each hazardous

situation• Risk evaluation• Risk control• It’s a process that runs through all your

activities

• generic types of harm (GTH) and• generic consequences (including distress and

loss of confidence in ability to live independently).

• The resultant client-centred framework offers a systematic basis for selecting and evaluating technology for independent living.

“Towards a practical framework for managing the risks of selecting

technology to support independent living” Andrew Monk, Kate Hone,,Lorna Lines, Alan Dowdall, Gordon Baxter, Mark Blythe and Peter Wright

Physical• injury (physical damage to the person occurring

on a short time scale)• untreated medical condition (physical damage

to the person occurring on a medium time scale due to a delay in receiving medical treatment)

• physical deterioration (physical damage to the person occurring on a long time scale)

Psychological and social

• Dependency (reduction in perceived personal worth due to dependency on technology or carers)

• loneliness (unwanted isolation from the community)

• fear (of attack, robbery etc.)

• debt (poverty)

Consequences

• distress (pain, fear and worry)

• loss of confidence in ability to live independently on the part of the person or the people who care for them

• costly medical treatment

• death

• Define objectives of risk analysis and the scope of the system evaluated;• Risk Analysis of current situation;• Risk analysis of planned system;• Risk analysis post-installation

New Innovations

The Mobile Lorm Glove, a prototype created by a lab in the University of Arts Berlin, transmits the touch alphabet used by some people who are both deaf and blind, called Lorm. 

http://www.psfk.com/2012/04/glove-deaf-blind-texting.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/science/ibrain-a-device-

that-can-read-thoughts.html

New system allows robots to continuously map their environment.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/simultaneous-localization-mapping-kinect-0216.html

The Blind Climber Who "Sees" With His Tongue

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jul/23-the-blind-climber-who-sees-through-his-tongue

Google driverless car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peDy2st2XpQ&feature=youtu.be

The system combines information gathered from Google Street View with artificial intelligence software that combines input from video cameras inside the car, a LIDAR sensor on top of the vehicle, radar sensors on the front of the vehicle and a position sensor attached to one of the rear wheels that helps locate the car's position on the map