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    5 Tips To Risk Assessment

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    Employers have a duty to systematically assess potential health and safety risks to workers from physical, mental, chemical, and biological hazards. This includes identifying who may be harmed from these hazards and how. After assessing the risks, employers must take action to reduce risks, record their findings, and regularly review and update the risk assessment.

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    5 Tips To Risk Assessment

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    Employers have a duty to systematically assess potential health and safety risks to workers from physical, mental, chemical, and biological hazards. This includes identifying who may be harmed from these hazards and how. After assessing the risks, employers must take action to reduce risks, record their findings, and regularly review and update the risk assessment.

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    Employers have a duty to systematically assess potential health and safety risks to workers from physical, mental, chemical, and biological hazards. This includes identifying who may be harmed from these hazards and how. After assessing the risks, employers must take action to reduce risks, record their findings, and regularly review and update the risk assessment.

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    Step 1: Identify hazards, i.e. anything that may cause harm.

    Employers have a duty to assess the health and safety risks faced by their workers.
    Your employer must systematically check for possible physical, mental, chemical
    and biological hazards.

    This is one common classification of hazards:

     Physical: e.g. lifting, awkward postures, slips and trips, noise, dust,
    machinery, computer equipment, etc.

     Mental: e.g. excess workload, long hours, working with high-need clients,
    bullying, etc. These are also called 'psychosocial' hazards, affecting mental
    health and occurring within working relationships.

     Chemical: e.g. asbestos, cleaning fluids, aerosols, etc.

     Biological: including tuberculosis, hepatitis and other infectious diseases


    faced by healthcare workers, home care staff and other healthcare
    professionals.

    Step 2: Decide who may be harmed, and how.

    Identifying who is at risk starts with your organisation's own full- and part-
    time employees. Employers must also assess risks faced by agency
    and contract staff, visitors, clients and other members of the public on their premises.

    Employers must review work routines in all the different locations and situations
    where their staff are employed. For example:

     Home care supervisors must take due account of their client's personal safety
    in the home, and ensure safe working and lifting arrangements for their own
    home care staff.

     In a supermarket, hazards are found in the repetitive tasks at the checkout, in


    lifting loads, and in slips and trips from spillages and obstacles in the shop
    and storerooms. Staff face the risk of violence from customers and intruders,
    especially in the evenings.

     In call centres, workstation equipment (i.e. desk, screen, keyboard and chair)
    must be adjusted to suit each employee.

    Employers have special duties towards the health and safety of young workers,
    disabled employees, nightworkers, shiftworkers, and pregnant or breastfeeding
    women.

    Step 3: Assess the risks and take action.

    This means employers must consider how likely it is that each hazard could cause
    harm. This will determine whether or not your employer should reduce the level of
    risk. Even after all precautions have been taken, some risk usually remains.
    Employers must decide for each remaining hazard whether the risk remains high,
    medium or low.

    Step 4: Make a record of the findings.

    Employers with five or more staff are required to record in writing the main findings of
    the risk assessment. This record should include details of any hazards noted in the
    risk assessment, and action taken to reduce or eliminate risk.

    This record provides proof that the assessment was carried out, and is used as the
    basis for a later review of working practices. The risk assessment is a working
    document. You should be able to read it. It should not be locked away in a cupboard.

    Step 5: Review the risk assessment.

    A risk assessment must be kept under review in order to:

     ensure that agreed safe working practices continue to be applied (e.g. that
    management's safety instructions are respected by supervisors and line
    managers); and

     take account of any new working practices, new machinery or more


    demanding work targets.

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