Workplace Health and Safety Risk Assessments

All organisations with 5 or more employees are legally required to carry out risk assessments of their activities. The risk assessments are required by law (the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999) to be suitable and sufficient and follow a five step approach:

1. Identify the hazards (only significant hazards need be identified - trivial hazards can be ignored)
2. Identify the people that could be harmed by the hazards
3. Evaluate the level of risk (considering the likelihood and potential severity of harm). Determine what control measures are currently in place, and how effective they are.
4. Record the significant findings.
5. Keep the assessment under regular review, and update as and when required.

Certain hazards require a specific kind of risk assessment, including:

• Manual handling risk assessment
• Display screen equipment risk assessment
• COSHH risk assessment
• Fire risk assessment

Phoenix Health and Safety can help with all your risk assessment requirements. We can advise you and provide forms, templates and support or we can even do the risk assessments for you! Our expert health and safety consultants will be only too happy to help.

Risk assessments can also be incorporated into our health and safety support contracts.

Please contact us for an informal discussion of how we can help.