Safety Training Courses

Risk assessment

Relevant sectors: Applicable to all industries

A risk assessment focuses on the risks in your workplace that have the potential to cause injury and provides effective preventative measures to protect from harm.

As required by regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations, an employer is required to protect people as far as ‘reasonably practicable’ from harm. Having risk assessments in place is therefore, essential. Any employer with 5 or more employees must have written risk assessments in place.

Only a ‘competent person’ can carry out risk assessments in the work place. This training course teaches the candidate the skills and knowledge they require to become a competent person, enabling them to produce suitable and sufficient risk assessments.

Course Aims

To provide delegates with the ‘tools’ and knowledge to become a competent person to carry out risk assessments in their workplace.

Course Content

• Cost of accidents
• Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
• Benefits of risk assessments
• Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations
• The HSE’s Five Steps to Risk Assessments
• Theory of risk assessment
• A practical exercise carrying out risk assessments under the guidance of your trainer