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Health & Safety Risk Assessments (Health & Safety Audits)
This Health & Safety Risk Assessment Guide will help you carry out your assessment. These can also referred to as Health and Safety Audits
Why do I need to do a risk assessment
All employers are under legal obligation to take "reasonably practicable" precautions to safeguard their employees. To do this an assessment of the risks that may be present, together with what steps are needed to remove or reduce these risks, needs to be made.
If you have 5 or more employees the findings of this risk assessment must be documented.
What needs to be included in a risk assessment
A health and safety risk assessment (sometimes referred to as a health and safety audit) would typically include the following steps:
- Identification of hazards
- Evaluating the likelihood of each hazard occurring
- Deciding who is at risk and in what way
- Deciding what precautions can be taken to reduce or eliminate each risk
- Introducing those preventive measures
- Recording findings and informing colleagues
- Reviewing the assessment regularly and revising it if necessary
How to undertake a risk assessment
For the office environment most assessments can be based on generic formats. Templates for these formats can be found in this Health & Safety Manual.
The Health and Safety Manual contains templates and guides to help you undertake health and safety risk assessments accurately and in a standardised format for all areas of your workplace. The guide covers:
- Health and Safety Policy
- Management of Health and Safety
- Health and Safety Training
- Accident Investigation
- Slips, Trips and Falls
- Manual Handling
- Work Equipment
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Display Screen Equipment
- COSHH
- Electrical Safety
- Gas Safety
- Working at Heights
- Lifts and Hoists
- Young Persons
- New and Expectant Mothers
- Blank Risk Assessments
- Health and Safety Audit Form
The following arease are NOT covered by this manual:
- Control of substances hazardous to health regulations 1999
- Electricity at work regulations 1989
- Noise at work regulations 1989
- Provision and use of work equipment regulations 1992
- Manual handling operations regulations 1992
- Workplace (health, safety and welfare) regulations 1992 (ensures the general working environment is safe, conducive to the work that takes place, and is in good repair)
- Health & safety (display screen equipment) regulations 1992
Health & Safety Risk Assessments (Health & Safety Audits)
This Health & Safety Risk Assessment Guide will help you carry out your assessment. These can also referred to as Health and Safety Audits
Why do I need to do a risk assessment
All employers are under legal obligation to take "reasonably practicable" precautions to safeguard their employees. To do this an assessment of the risks that may be present, together with what steps are needed to remove or reduce these risks, needs to be made.
If you have 5 or more employees the findings of this risk assessment must be documented.
What needs to be included in a risk assessment
A health and safety risk assessment (sometimes referred to as a health and safety audit) would typically include the following steps:
- Identification of hazards
- Evaluating the likelihood of each hazard occurring
- Deciding who is at risk and in what way
- Deciding what precautions can be taken to reduce or eliminate each risk
- Introducing those preventive measures
- Recording findings and informing colleagues
- Reviewing the assessment regularly and revising it if necessary
How to undertake a risk assessment
For the office environment most assessments can be based on generic formats. Templates for these formats can be found in this Health & Safety Manual.
The Health and Safety Manual contains templates and guides to help you undertake health and safety risk assessments accurately and in a standardised format for all areas of your workplace. The guide covers:
- Health and Safety Policy
- Management of Health and Safety
- Health and Safety Training
- Accident Investigation
- Slips, Trips and Falls
- Manual Handling
- Work Equipment
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Display Screen Equipment
- COSHH
- Electrical Safety
- Gas Safety
- Working at Heights
- Lifts and Hoists
- Young Persons
- New and Expectant Mothers
- Blank Risk Assessments
- Health and Safety Audit Form
The following arease are NOT covered by this manual:
- Control of substances hazardous to health regulations 1999
- Electricity at work regulations 1989
- Noise at work regulations 1989
- Provision and use of work equipment regulations 1992
- Manual handling operations regulations 1992
- Workplace (health, safety and welfare) regulations 1992 (ensures the general working environment is safe, conducive to the work that takes place, and is in good repair)
- Health & safety (display screen equipment) regulations 1992
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