The Safepoint risk assessment template
What is a risk assessment?
A risk assessment is a process of identifying, measuring and evaluating risk for individuals, organisations, assets and the environment as a result of a particular activity, role or undertaking.
The goal of a risk assessment is to understand the potential risks, measure what you are doing to prevent that risk, and decide whether you need to do more. You’ll look at what controls you have in place to prevent risk and measure whether they are appropriate and sensible, and whether you might need to employ further controls to fully protect your staff and organisation.
Risk assessments are a legal requirement for all employers and self-employed people.
As the Health and Safety Executive notes: “It is a legal requirement for every employer and self-employed person to make an assessment of the health and safety risks arising out of their work.”
If you have five or more employees, it is also a legal requirement to record your risk assessments for future appraisal and so they can be consulted in the event of an incident.
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Safepoint’s free risk assessment template
We’ve created a helpful risk assessment template for you to download and use in your business.
In the risk assessment template we ask:
What is the risk you have identified?
Who might be harmed and how?
What are you already doing to mitigate this risk?
Do you need to do anything else to control this risk?
Who is responsible for these actions?
We find that this is a really helpful way of getting workers and managers to assess the risk of the situation they’re going into.
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