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Risk management involves you, the employer, looking at the risks that arise in the workplace and then putting sensible health and safety measures in place to control them.

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How to make a risk assessment

A straight forward guide on how to make a risk assessment and how to assess the risks in your workplace.

• What is risk assessment?
• Identify the hazards
• Decide who might be harmed
• Evaluate the risks
• Record your findings
• Review your assessments

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Example risk assessments

• Office
• Factory
• Food preparation
• Warehouse
• Bricklayers
• Office cleaning
• Pub

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Sensible risk management

• What HSE believes risk management should be about
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• Putting it into practice

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• What is a hazard?
• Why is risk assessment important?
• How do I do a risk assessment?

• Do I have to record the findings of the risk assessment?
• Is HSE too risk averse?

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How to make a risk assessment

A straight forward guide on how to make a risk assessment and how to assess the risks in your workplace.

• What is risk assessment?
• Identify the hazards
• Decide who might be harmed
• Evaluate the risks
• Record your findings
• Review your assessments
  

  Example risk assessments

  • Office
  • Factory
  • Food preparation
  • Warehouse
  • Bricklayers
  • Office cleaning
  • Pub