Risk Assessment
Risk assessment is the process of identifying, analysing, and evaluating potential hazards in a workplace to minimise risks. It helps ensure a safe environment by implementing preventive measures, reducing accidents, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations for employees and visitors.
Why Carry Out an Assessment?
As an employer, you’re required by law to protect your employees, and others, from harm.
Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, the minimum you must do is:
- Identify what could cause injury or illness in your business (hazards)
- Decide how likely it is that someone could be harmed and how seriously (the risk)
- Take action to eliminate the hazard, or if this isn’t possible, control the risk.
Assessing risk is just one part of the overall process used to control risks in your workplace.
What is a Risk Assessment?
A risk assessment is a careful examination of anything in your work environment that could cause injury or ill health. It is about deciding who might be harmed and then judging how likely it is that something will go wrong, and how serious the consequences could be.
Once you worked out what the risks are and how significant they are, they can concentrate on cutting them out – or at least controlling them.
Control the health and safety risks in your workplace is crucial. To prevent accidents from happening, it is necessary to think about what, in your company, might cause harm to people. assessment shows you whether your business meets all the requirements to protect employees.
How Can You Prevent an Accident From Happening?
You can never prevent an accident from happening but you can reduce the likelihood and the consequence by;
- Eliminating the hazard.
- Reduce/substitute the hazard.
- Prevent contact tom the hazard.
- Introducing a safe system of work
- Use of Personal Protective clothing/equipment
Benefits of Our Health and Safety Risk assessment assistance
Our expert consultants will assist you to carry out the Assessments, enabling you to identify:
- The hazards (anything that has the potential to cause harm) present in your workplace
- People who might be harmed and how
- What the company is already doing to control them
- Actions your company needs to take to remove or reduce the risks
Bravanark Network does not only assist you in carrying out Risk Assessments, but also train your staff on request, and enable them to complete them in-house.
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Frequently Asked Questions
A Risk Assessment involves identifying potential hazards, evaluating their impact, and implementing measures to minimize risks in the workplace.
It ensures legal compliance, protects employees from harm, and helps create a safer work environment.
By eliminating hazards, using protective equipment, implementing safe work systems, and reducing risks effectively.
Employers are responsible for ensuring that risk assessments are completed, however they can delegate to trained staff to carry out the assessments.
We conduct assessments, provide compliance guidance, and train staff to manage risks in-house, reducing costs.
