Health & Safety Risk Assessment

The risk assessment is an important step in protecting your primary asset, your workers, as well your business; it’s also a legal duty. It helps to find out, and document, where the important risks are within your business with the objective of reducing the risks to an acceptable level. In most instances the solution will be straightforward, cheap and will be readily available to protect your workforce. The law only requires risk to be removed “as far as is reasonably practicable”.

A risk assessment is an examination of what you do in your workplace, and how harm could be caused. You are then able to identify if there are enough precautions in place to protect your workforce, or if more needs to be done.

There are five steps to a risk assessment:

1. Hazard identification - what is, or could be, dangerous in your workplace
2. Identify the people at risk - who might be harmed and how
3. Evaluate the severity and likelihood of the risks occurring and decide on suitable precautions
4. Record the findings of your assessment and implement the identified precautions
5. Review your assessment and the precautions and update if necessary

In all cases you should involve your staff in the risk assessment process; they will be able to provide useful information about how the job is done helping to more easily identify the risks.

If you are not confident at doing your own risk assessments, contact us now to find out how we can help you to complete your risk assessments.

We can also carry out your Fire Safety Risk Assessments, and regularly run a Risk Assessment Training Course, contact us now to find out more

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