Assignment 101 Task A7 Risk Assessment
Risk Assessment
Risk Management
Your employer must look after their employees under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, the minimum you must do is:
· Identify what could cause injury or illness in your business (Hazards)
· Decide how likely it is that someone could be harmed and how seriously (The Risk)
· Take action to eliminate the Hazard, or if this isn’t possible, control the Risk
· Assessing Risk is just one part of the overall process used to control Risks in your workplace.
The Five Steps To Risk Assessment
Risk assessments is a process of identifying hazards that are likely to cause harm to employees and visitors.
Method statements is a document explaining how you going to do hazardous activities safely.
Both documents should be shown to you on your site induction and are normally kept in the office.
Risk Assessment Five Steps
Dynamic Risk Assessment
Dynamic Risk Assessment is a quick assessment decision on a situation during a work activity that is outside of the normal risk assessment and method statement.
As an employee, you must inform your supervisor of any Health & Safety changes during your work activity.
Additional learning resources for this unit can be found on the following links
Task A1: Health & Safety In Construction.
Task A2: The role of the Health & Safety Executive.
Task A3: Health & Safety Regulations.
Task A4: Responsibility for Health & Safety.
Task A6: Health & Safety Risks In Construction.
Task A8: Safety Sign Categories.
Task A10: Global Harmonized System Level 1.
