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Peninsula Group, HR and Health & Safety Experts
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Peninsula Group, HR and Health & Safety Experts
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Read our guide to learn what a risk assessment is, why their so important, and the process of conducting your own assessment.
Anyone who’s working in an office, on a building site, or in a cafe will know about health & safety concerns.
Extensive induction periods, seemingly endless training; it can all feel unimportant.
However, these can help to remove health & safety risks that might hurt an employee or even ruin a business. This is where risk assessments come into play.
Read our guide to learn what a risk assessment is, why their so important, and the process of conducting your own assessment.
A risk assessment is the systematic process of evaluating any potential risks. These risks can be within an area, building, or during a project.
They help you see the risks present in your workplace, as identifying potential hazards and lowering workplace risk is the primary goal of health & safety checks.
This is a broad definition of a work risk assessment. There are many examples of risk assessments in the workplace.
It’s also important to understand the difference in risks and decide how to approach them when conducting an assessment.
This can include defining what each factor in an assessment means.
For example:
With these appraisals conducted and known to employees, you can help to make work activities safer.
Taking these steps help you put risk control measures in place, which protect both employees and the business.
You can protect employees and your company with safety evaluations because they:
There are hazards and risks in almost every work environment. Potential hazards come with their own unique levels of risk, which is what your safety risk assessment needs to determine.
Health & safety law states that you must try to control the risks in a workplace and remove any potential to cause harm.
But more than just being important because you have to do them, risk assessments help you to:
Record your findings and take steps to reduce the dangers involved with them. This way, you can make your working environment a safer place for everyone.
Benefits of these assessments in the workplace aren’t just limited to a safer working environment. It also protects a business in case anything does happen to an employee in the workplace.
Health & safety evaluations narrow down any areas that need attention to prevent harm to employees and harm to a business in all.
It’s important to ask yourself vital questions when conducting a risk assessment.
This latter question will depend on whether you’re conducting a risk assessment for a business or a short-term project.
Regardless of the purpose of the assessment, it’s important to conduct it properly and regularly.
One vital stage of this process is identifying the type of assessment you need to conduct. These types of evaluations include:
Conducting a risk assessment in the workplace should include:
But, establish a timeline to review the levels of risk. This can vary depending on the risk and how extensively you will assess your business.
For example, regular accidents should have risk prevention methods reviewed weekly.
Reviewing large, business-wide risk prevention can occur monthly or annually. Set these review standards and stick to them.
It’s your responsibility to ensure your business carries out safety assessments. A person with the relevant knowledge and skills required should do this. This is where Peninsula Business Services can help.
If you have an HR department that wishes to conduct a risk evaluation themselves, they’ll need help to conduct a safety evaluation in the workplace.
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