A risk audit requires an eye for detail, since many facility dangers may not be immediately apparent.
Photo of a banked corners retrofit onto a college recreation center's original flat trackA risk audit requires an eye for detail, since many dangers associated with the operation of your facility will not be immediately apparent as you perform a walk-through. Some potential trouble spots, like this one - banked corners retrofit onto a college recreation center's original flat track, complete with steep drop-off on the outside of the curve - should be easy even for a layperson to recognize. However, identifying the track's potential user groups will go a long way toward determining just how grave the risk is. If this track's users will be practiced runners familiar with the nuances of running on a banked surface, a fall is highly unlikely. If the facility were intended for older adults with sight or mobility issues, it would be a different story. The use of a thin yellow line to mark the outside edge seems somewhat comical given the height of the drop-off, but it is an important detail. A yellow line won't prevent a fall, but it will serve to warn users of a potential hazard - an aspect of most slip-fall cases that eventually reach the courts.
