Vegetation Risk Management

• Document No.

• Audit Title

• Client / Site

• Conducted on

  Date

• Prepared by

• Location
  Address

• Personnel

Step 1 - Describing the Risks and Controls

• Photo of Risk

  Media

• What is the Risk to?

  Damage to Council assets (eg. bollarding)

  Damage to private assets (eg. private fence)

  Injury to Council staff

  Injury to member of the public

  Other - please specify below

• If you have selected other, please specify here

• Describe the risk - What causes the risk? (Eg. Falling limb, falling tree, eroding bank, lack of fencing etc.)

• Describe the controls - What do we currently have in place to address the risk? (Eg. Regular monitoring, barricade fencing, access restriction, pruning etc.)

Step 2 - Measure the 'Likelihood' of Risk (1-5)

• Likelihood of Risk

  Almost certain - 5 - May occur in most climatic and/or tidal circumstances, possibly a number of times a month, 90% chance of occurring

  Likely - 4 - May occur seasonally, approximately once a year in a 'typical' event - 50-90% chance of occurring

  Possible - 3 - May occur once every 2-5 years as a result of climatic and or tidal circumstances - 20-50% chance of occurring

  Unlikely - 2 - Damage may not yet have occurred, but could occur at some time, say once in 10 years as a result of rare climatic events - eg. Cyclone and/or storm surge - 1-20% chance of occurring

  Rare - 1 - May occur in exceptional climatic circumstances - eg. severe tropical cyclone and storm surge - <1% chance of occurring

Step 3 - Measure the 'Consequence' of the Risk (1-5)

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• Severity Level

  Catastrophic - 5

  Serious - 4

  Moderate - 3

  Minor - 2

  Insignificant - 1

Step 4 - Identify 'Risk Rating'

• Combine 'Likelihood' and 'Consequence' Score to get the "RISK RATING"

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Step 5 - Identify 'Control Rating' and required action

• Does the control address the risk effectively?

  Yes - 1

  Partly - 2

  No - 3

• Is the control officially documented and communicated?

  Yes - 1

  Partly - 2

  No - 3

• Is the control in operation and applied consistently?

  Yes - 1

  Partly - 2

  No - 3

• Add the above scores together on this slider to get the "CONTROL RATING"

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Combine 'Risk Rating' and 'Control Rating' to establish management priority

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• Management Priority

  Needs Active Management

  Needs Regular Monitoring

  Needs Periodic Monitoring

  No Major Concern

Record Results Recommendation

• What more do we need to do to: -Prevent risk from happening -reduce or get rid of causes -strengthen controls Examples would be to nominate monitoring frequency, barricade fencing, access restrictions, tree removal, departmental notifications, no action required etc.

• Name of Risk Assessor/s:

• Date of assessment

  Date