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Risk Assessment
Health & Safety Consultancy, Information & Management
Risk Assessments - are you compliant?
• Who undertakes your risk assessments?
• Have all your significant risks been assessed?
• Where do you keep your risk assessment records?
• How often do you review your risk assessments?
• How are your employees informed of risks?
• Who designs and implements your risk control measures?
• Have all your significant risks been addressed?
• How are control measures communicated?
• How are changes communicated?
• What H&S training is provided?
What does the HSE say about assessing risk?
A risk assessment is nothing more than a
careful examination of what, in your work, could cause harm to people, so that you can weigh up whether you have taken enough precautions or should do more to prevent harm.
The aim is to make sure that no one gets hurt or becomes ill. Accidents and ill health can ruin lives, and affect your business too if output is lost, machinery is damaged, insurance costs increase, or you have to go to court. You are legally required to assess the risks in your workplace.
The important things you need to decide are whether a hazard is significant, and whether you have it covered by satisfactory precautions so that the risk is small.
You need to check this when you assess the risks. For instance, electricity can kill but the risk of it doing so in an office environment is remote, provided that ‘live’ components are insulated and metal casings earthed.
Risk Assessments - are you trained to carry them out?
How To Assess Risk
This (approx 1.5 hour) PowerPoint presentation which - can also be used as a refresher session - is divided in to 2 parts and is based on the Health and Safety Executives "5 steps to Risk Assessment"
The presentation introduces a new easy to understand action process in combating risk.
Part one:
Covers the four main reasons which require businesses and organisations to assess risk.
By the end of the session attendees will understand:
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What risk assessment is
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Where the requirement for risk assessment comes from
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The principles behind carrying out a risk assessment
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How to conduct risk assessment
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Moral
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Legal
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Financial
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Reputational
Part two:
Introduces Sussexsafety.net's new simplified risk assessment process.
The second half of the session covers the HSE's 5 steps to asseing risk, the calculation of hazard severity against liklihood of risk and discusses how to keep records using the the free Risk Assessment Template:
Learn how implement the HSE's 5 steps to risk assessment process
Step 1 - Identify the hazards
Step 2 - Decide who might be harmed and how
Step 3 - Evaluate the risks and decide on precautions
Step 4 - Record your findings and implement them
Step 5 - Review your assessment and update if necessary
Sussexsafety.net's interactive risk assessment presentation is tailored to meet the needs of all employers, including; directors, leaders, managers, supervisors & employees.
It is guaranteed to assist you with meeting your organisations legal obligations in conducting risk assessments.
Take a look at the Sussexsafety.net
Risk Assessment Template
Or download here - It's Free
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