Think about people who might not
be the workplace all the time cleaners, visitors, contractors mainte-
nance personnel.
If the work that you varies lot, there movement between one
site and another, select those hazards which you can reasonably foresee,
the ones that apply most jobs and assess the risks for them. record that
shows whether sufficient precautions have been taken prevent harm. Then ask yourself whether gener-
ally accepted industry standards are place, but not stop there think
for yourself, because the law also says that you must what reasonably
practicable keep the workplace safe.
Key Fact
Definition
● Hazard something that might
cause harm
● Risk the chance that harm will
be done. there chance that they could injured activities taking
place the workplace?
STEP 3
Evaluate what the risk arising from identified hazard. What you have decide, for each signifi-
cant hazard, whether this remaining risk low, medium high. Your real aim make all risks
small adding precautions, necessary.
STEP 2
Decide who might harmed and how.
STEP 1
Look what might reasonably expected cause harm. Include members the public people who share the
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significant risks.
STEP 4
Record your findings and say what you are going about risks that are
not adequately controlled. there are fewer than five employees you do
not need write anything down but there are five more employees,
. Manufacturer’s data sheets instructions can also help
you spot hazards and put risks their true perspective. assessment risk nothing more than careful examina-
tion what, your work, could cause harm people. adequately
controlled should more done? Even after precautions have been put
in place, some risk may remain.
The HSE recommends five steps any risk assessment. Staff are expected read and act upon these formal
risk assessments, and they are unlikely enthusiastically the file is
full trivia. not expected assess the trivial and minor types of
household risks. For example, there are legal requirements the preven-
tion access dangerous machinery. Ignore the triv-
ial and concentrate only significant hazards that could result serious
harm injury.
If you find that something needs done, ask yourself:
● Can get rid this hazard altogether?
● not, how can control the risk that harm unlikely?
Only use PPE when there nothing else that you can reasonably do. First
of all, ask yourself you have done all the things that the law says you
have got do. After that,
if you spot any unusual hazards when you get site, take what action
seems necessary
