Industrial Mastery Pathway
Defining Hazard and Risk: The Six Hazard Groups
Operational Overview
You already know the difference between a hazard and a risk. This course goes further: giving you a structured way to categorise every hazard you'll ever come across, so nothing slips through a risk assessment because it didn't fit an obvious box.
Six recognised groups cover almost every hazard in any workplace: mechanical, physical, chemical, biological, environmental and organisational. Some hazards genuinely span more than one group, and that's fine, the categories exist to make sure you're looking everywhere, not to force a single tidy label on everything.
By the end, you'll be able to walk into any workplace and systematically check all six.
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Instructional Objectives
- Define and distinguish the six recognised hazard groups.
- Correctly classify a given real-world hazard into its group.
- Recognise that some hazards genuinely span more than one group.
- Apply this classification to make a risk assessment more thorough.