Work Method Statement:				Extreme Temperature
Activity	What are the Hazards?	What is the Risk?		How are you going to Control the Hazard and minimise the risk of injury?							Who is going to Monitor and
	(What has the potential to cause injury?)	(From Risk Calculator - see below)		A HAZARD MAY REQUIRE THE USE OF ONE OR MORE CONTROL MEASURES - CROSS OUT/ DELETE CONTROL MEASURES NOT USED							Review it and How?
				1.  Personnel should be able to recognise Heat Stress or Cold Stress Aliments -							Name
Working in	Working in			Work Performance Impaired, Illness, Clinical Effects or Potentially Life Threatening.
Extremes of	extreme hot or			They should address their concerns immediately.
Temperature	cold conditions
				2.  Where possible the source of extreme Heat or Cold should be removed from
				the site.							Signature
				3.   Wear appropriate PPE to protect from the extreme hot or cold conditions - This
				can be as simple as following the Slip, Slop, Slap, Slide principals of Sun
				Protection as per the Cancer Council's Slogan.
											Method (How)
				4.  Dress appropriately for the weather conditions - cooler fibres for hot conditions							Visual
				and multi-layering in cold conditions.							inspection
											where required
				5.  Consider tasks and timing and structure jobs to minimise exposure to
				extreme temperatures.  Eg.  During the hours of 11am-2pm in Summer restructure							Workers
				labour intensive tasks to a cooler time of day or a cooler location/area.							supervised
				6.  Allow short breaks to keep fluid levels up in hot conditions and allow for the							Use of
				consuming of hot drinks in cold conditions.  Also offers relief from exposure to cold,							competent
				windy conditions or restricted ventilated hot conditions, etc.							persons where
											required
				7.  Decision may be made to cease work.
HOW TO USE THIS RISK TABLE			RISK RATING CALCULATOR		Likelihood					Risk Rating	Prioritisation
			Consequence		Very likely Could happen anytime	Likely Could happen sometimes	Unlikely Could happen, but only rarely	Very Unlikely Could happen, but probably never will		1 or 2	Action to rectify
Step 1:  Identify potential hazards.			What injury/damage could it cause?								must be done
Step 2:  Decide what the possible Consequence could be			Death or permanent disability		1	1	2	3			immediately
Step 3:  Decide How Likely? It is to happen			Long term illness or serious injury		1	2	3	4		3, 4 or 5	Consider
Step 4:  Line up your choices in the table to get a number			Medical attention & several days off work		2	3	4	5			control measure
Step 5:  Use the Priority table (far right side) to guide your next steps			First aid needed		3	4	5	6			as necessary