Risk Rating Guidance Sheet During the assessment, rate the risk using the tables below. . Start with the questions: Is harm to occur or not likely to occur’? ‘likely What harm is expected if it did occur? Using professional judgement, read from left to right, to decide what is reasonably anticipated. How often might it/does it happen Rare Unlikely Likely Highly Likely Almost certain Do not expect The incident is The incident is more Expect this to Expect this to this to ever occur less likely to likely to occur than happen in the happen in the short occur than to not medium term term. Occurrence of occur an Incident may be imminent What is the expected impact of the harm Negligible Minor Moderate Major Catastrophic Harm, injury, Illness, Harm, injury, Illness, Harm, injury, Illness, or Fatality or permanent Fatality or permanent or psychological or psychological psychological trauma harm, injury, long harm, disability/ trauma of a degree trauma of a degree of a degree that term incapacity/ incapacity or long that is consistent that requires requires hospital disability or long term term severe with normal life medical intervention admission / treatment, severe psychological trauma experiences. e.g. prescribed psychotherapy or psychological caused by one ‘One- off’ interventions may treatment medium to long term trauma caused by person to another be required e.g. First treatment the individual to aid / possible GP themselves Minor or temporary appointment deterioration on Significant or medium Long- aspects of health or to long-term negative term/permanent Transient impact on independence and impact on aspects of significant negative health or an aspect of wellbeing health or impact on health or independence or independence, and independence and wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing
Risk Rating Guidance Sheet During the assessment, rate the risk using the tables below. . Start with the questions: Is harm ‘likely to occur or not likely to occur’? What harm is expected if it did occur? Using professional judgement, read from left to right, to decide what is reasonably anticipated. How often might it/does it happen Rare Unlikely Likely Highly Likely Almost certain Do not expect this to ever occur The incident is less likely to occur than to occur The incident is more likely to occur than not Expect this to happen in the medium term Expect this to happen in the short term. Occurrence of an Incident may be imminent What is the expected impact of the harm Negligible Minor Moderate Major Catastrophic Harm, injury, Illness, or psychological trauma of a degree that is consistent with normal life experiences. ‘One- off’ interventions may be required e.g. First aid / possible GP appointment Transient impact on health or an aspect of independence or wellbeing Harm, injury, Illness, or psychological trauma of a degree that requires medical intervention e.g. prescribed treatment Minor or temporary deterioration on aspects of health or independence and wellbeing Harm, injury, Illness, or psychological trauma of a degree that requires hospital admission / treatment, psychotherapy or medium to long term treatment Significant or medium to long-term negative impact on aspects of health or independence, and wellbeing Fatality or permanent harm, injury, long term incapacity/ disability or long term severe psychological trauma caused by the individual to themselves Long- term/permanent significant negative impact on health or independence and wellbeing Fatality or permanent harm, disability/ incapacity or long term severe psychological trauma caused by one person to another
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