Risk Assessments

Organisations with 5 or more employees are legally required to have written arrangements for the planning, organisation, control, monitoring, and review of health and safety measures.

Risk assessments need to include the hazards and the risks involved to reduce injury to employees. The definition of a hazard is the potential to cause harm and the definition of risk is that the harm is realised.

As part of the ongoing service, suitable and sufficient risk assessments will be produced indicating the adequate and inadequate controls. This will include a recommendation document indicating the inadequate controls and a time frame where these issues will need to be addressed.

Examples of risk assessments that can be produced include:

• Battery Charging
• COSHH
• Display Screen assessments
• Electrical Safety
• Fork Lift Trucks
• Fuel Tank Safety
• Gardening Safety
• Gardening Equipment Safety
• Gas Safety
• Gym Equipment
• Highly Flammable Liquids
• Housekeeping
• Ladders & Step Ladders
• Lifting Equipment
• Liquefied Petroleum Gas
• Lone Working
• Machine Shop Safety, including drilling machines, lathes, grinding machines etc
• Manual Handling
• Office Safety
• Paint Spraying
• Swimming Pool Safety
• Use of Oxygen, Acetylene and other cylinders
• Warehouse Safety
• Welfare Safety
• Woodworking Safety, including types of woodworking machinery.
• Working at Height
• Workplace Safety
• Workshop Safety

This list is not exhaustive but gives an idea of what is required

The law also requires for detailed/specific risk assessments to be completed. The assessments that require to be produced include:

• COSHH
• Display Screen assessments
• Fork Lift Trucks
• Gardening Equipment
• Machine Shop Safety, including drilling machines, lathes, grinding machines etc
• Manual Handling
• New & Expectant Mothers
• Woodworking Safety, including types of woodworking machinery.
• Working at Height

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