Risk assessments

Risk assessments

A risk assessment is an important step in protecting your workers and your business, as well as complying with the law. It helps you focus on the risks that really matter in your workplace – the ones with the potential to cause harm.

A risk assessment is simply a careful examination of what, in your work, could cause harm to people, so that you can weigh up whether you have taken enough precautions or should do more to prevent harm. Workers and others have a right to be protected from harm caused by a failure to take reasonable control measures.

Our risk assessments documents are not just a survey or a tick box exercise but a comprehensive analysis of a building’s activities, occupants and human behaviour.

A site-specific assessment will be prepared and will also include an action plan, which will give a specific description of any actions, along with a risk rating and suggested timescale for implementation.

Risk assessment process

Our general risk assessment process is undertaken in a systematic manner as laid out in the Management of Health and Safety Regulations and the HSE guidance document – Five steps to risk assessment, which involves the following stages:

• Identifying the hazards.
• Deciding on who might be harmed.
• Evaluating the risks and deciding on precautions.
• Recording the findings and implementing them.
• Reviewing any existing risk assessments and updating where necessary.

Why choose Workplace Law?

Workplace Law provides a high quality, personal service at very competitive rates. We place great emphasis on the training and approach of our consultants, which gives you the reassurance of a thorough, competent and reliable service:

• Our health and safety consultants are highly qualified professionals who are qualified to the level of Technical Safety Practitioner, as a minimum.
• All of our health and safety professionals have a health and safety managerial background and therefore recognise the importance of developing a risk assessment with specific and pragmatic solutions.
• Ability to deliver a comprehensive range of risk assessments to meet the requirements of specific specialist activities including: 
  • display screen equipment;
  • manual handling;
  • fire;
  • control of substances hazardous to health;
  • provision and use of work equipment;
  • personal protective equipment;
  • design risk management, as required under CDM;
  • lifting operations;
  • young persons; and
  • pregnant workers.