Assessment
Health, Safety and Environmental
Risk assessment.
Risk assessment completion is an essential process within H&S management. It is a legal requirement for your company to carry out risk assessments to ascertain the significant risks associated with your business activities. For businesses with 5 or more employees, risk assessments need to be documented.
Hannaford Consultancy can help you with the risk assessment process , placing emphasis on your significant hazards/ risks helping to ensure your risk assessments are suitable and sufficient and the of level of detail included is proportional to the hazards and risks associated with your operations .
The HSE recommend a 5 step approach to risk assessment;
- Identify the hazards
- Decide who might be harmed and how
- Evaluate the risks and decide on the precautions
- Record your significant findings
- Review your assessment and update if necessary
Risk assessment is not a complex process, you will probably already know your significant risks. Data such as accidents and near miss history can help provide focus on what risks are likely to require more consideration in you business.
Hannaford Consultancy can help you with the process of general risk assessment completion. Hannaford Consultants can also assist with more specific risk assessments such as manual handling, fire risk assessment, COSHH, machinery, and PUWER assessments.
We are experienced in risk assessment application and understand the need to ensure that suggested control measures are practical and can be sensibly implemented in the real world.