A basic guide to the legal requirement in health and safety at work legislation for risk assessments.
Employers are required to take reasonably practicable measures to protect the health, safety and welfare of their employees whilst they are at work.
To do this correctly, as part of your business management process you need to know the hazards and risks present in the workplace and faced by your workers when they are working at other locations. Regulations make this a legal requirement. To comply you need to formally assess and think about what might cause harm to people and consider whether you are taking reasonable steps to prevent that harm.
Risk assessment is simply a careful and sensible way of identifying what, in your work place, could cause harm to people. If you have fewer than five employees health and safety legislation doesn’t require you to keep a written record. However, should you face a personal injury claim a timely record, even if brief, will be of benefit.
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• What you must do
• Identify hazards
• Who is at risk?
• Evaluate and Control
• Record and Communicate
• Review
