Companies have a legal duty to ensure that suitable arrangements are in place to manage health and safety. Documented risk assessments must be made if the company employs 5 or more people and these records must be kept.
Basically:
- Assess the possible risks.
- Determine the possible consequences.
- Who or what will be affected.
- Evaluate the risks. Remove, reduce, control.
- Continuously review.
These are just the very simple steps and a lot more is involved. See the HSE website for more information and we’ll be adding an extra free course – Risk assessments, method statements and safe isolation procedure soon.
Stay safe at work…