⚠️ THIS IS A PLANNING TEMPLATE AND CALCULATOR ONLY — IT IS NOT A JSA.
This tool helps you start a job safety analysis by dropping in common hazards. It must NEVER be used as, or in place of, a proper JSA / SWMS / risk assessment carried out by a competent person for your specific job, site, gear, crew and conditions. The hazards, risk ratings and controls here are generic examples that may be wrong, incomplete or not applicable to your situation. You are responsible for identifying every real hazard, assessing it correctly, applying the right controls, consulting your workers, and complying with all WHS/OHS laws and your duty of care. If in doubt, get a qualified safety professional. Do not rely on this output.
JSA / Risk Assessment Builder
Drag hazards from the library on the left into your document. Each drops in with a suggested risk rating, who/what is at risk, and control measures alongside — then edit everything for your actual job. Covers people (crew, performers, audience, public), property and vehicles, for live events, AV, staging and rigging.
Risk matrix (how the score works)
Risk score = Likelihood × Consequence. Pick each from 1–5; the colour and level update automatically. This is one common 5×5 scheme — your organisation's matrix may differ, so use yours.
Low (1–4) Moderate (5–9) High (10–14) Extreme (15–25)
Running the show, not just the paperwork
Enchant Entertainment hires and operates sound, lighting, staging and rigging across Perth and regional WA. We work to our own risk assessments and SWMS, are fully insured and bring crew who know how to make it safe.
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A starting point for your event risk assessment
A JSA (Job Safety Analysis), sometimes called a JSEA, SWMS or risk assessment, lists the hazards in a job, rates the risk of each, and sets out the controls that bring that risk down. This free builder gives you a drag-and-drop library of the hazards that come up again and again on live events, AV, staging and rigging jobs — electrical, working at height, rigging and suspended loads, manual handling, slips and trips, fire, crowds, noise, vehicles and transport, weather, malicious acts and security, and more — each pre-filled with who or what is at risk, a suggested likelihood and consequence, and a set of control measures based on the hierarchy of controls.
Drop the hazards that apply, mark who is at risk (crew, performers, audience, public, equipment, vehicles), delete what does not apply, add anything specific to your site, then edit every rating and control so it reflects reality. Print or export it as the first draft your competent person works from.
The hierarchy of controls
Good controls follow the hierarchy, most effective first: eliminate the hazard, substitute it for something safer, use engineering controls (guards, barriers, secondary safeties), then administrative controls (procedures, training, signage, exclusion zones), and only last, PPE. The suggested controls try to follow that order, but you must choose the controls that actually work for your job.