In compliance with The Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999, you have to complete Risk Assessments and if you employ 5 or more persons then these must be documented.
Completing these risk assessments, often referred to as General Risk Assessments, will help identify what hazards you have on-site, their level of risk and who might be harmed. These could be environmental risks, such as noise and dust, human factors including stress, anxiety and shift work, or physical hazards, such as contact with machinery, poor ergonomics and manual handling, exposure to chemical hazards or working at height hazards to name a few.
Firstly and foremost, it’s the law. Also, risk assessments will be compulsory for your Insurance and to help protect your company against prosecution and the ever-increasing risks from litigation and finally because you have a Duty of Care and a moral responsibility to your employees to keep them safe.
The purpose of the risk assessments is to work with your employees to identify whether there are sufficient control measures in place or whether additional controls are required.
I am fully qualified and have experience of carrying out General Risk Assessments in a wide variety of industries. A General Risk Assessment will provide you with a greater understanding of your risks and the existing measures you have in place and most importantly where the gaps are that need to be managed.
I will either come into your premises and, through liaison with your team members, complete suitable & sufficient risk assessments on your behalf or alternatively I can just guide you through the process offering advise as you go if you wish to carry out the risk assessment yourself.
There are specific sets of regulations which require specialised Risk Assessments including;
