RISK ASSESSMENTS
Risk Assessments
The idea of completing Risk Assessments can be daunting. In reality we all undertake risk assessments in our everyday lives. Whilst driving, we are continually identifying hazards, assessing and taking actions to eliminate or reduce the risk without thinking of this as risk assessing.
Risk Assessments are a legal requirement for every employer. It is imperative that all areas of risk within your business have been either eliminated, reduced, isolated or controlled by using the same steps as when driving:
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Identify your hazards
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Assess the level of risk
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Eliminate, reduce or isolate the risk
No matter how straight-forward or specialised your risk assessment requirements are, our team can assist your organisation in fulfilling its risk assessment obligations.
What are the benefits of undertaking Risk Assessments?
Risk Assessments help you run your business safely by:
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Reducing the risk of accidents and near misses
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Improving morale
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Enhancing your safety culture
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Increasing profitability
By identifying what activities, substances, machinery, etc could cause harm and who to, you can then decide if you are doing enough to control that harm.
Sometimes it may mean removing the harm completely, such as toxic fumes, other times it may mean a combination of guards, safe systems of work, additional training or the use of protective equipment when using machinery.
Types of Risk Assessment we can provide:
COSHH
RISK ASSESSMENTS
There is a legal requirement to carry out an assessment of the risk to health created by work involving substances hazardous to health.
A COSHH assessment concentrates on the hazards and risks from substances in your workplace.
LONE WORKER
RISK ASSESSMENTS
Lone workers face the same hazards at work as anyone else, but there is a greater risk of these hazards causing harm as they may not have anyone to help or support them if things go wrong.
MANUAL HANDLING
RISK ASSESSMENTS
A suitable and sufficient risk assessment is required when hazardous manual handling cannot be avoided. The assessment should identify where the risk of injury lies and identify appropriate ways to manage and reduce that risk.
FIRE
RISK ASSESSMENTS
Businesses are required to meet with The Fire Safety Order 2005 – UK Fire Regulations. The fire safety order is aimed at simplifying the fire safety process, while at the same time placing a greater onus on a business owner to carry out fire risk assessments regularly.