Risk Assessment

A lot of hospitals are now engaging their employees into getting risk management certifications that they can then use to better manage risks in their hospitals. In order to...

The main objective of risk assessment is to determine the measures required by the organization to comply with the relevant health and safety legislation and, thereby, decrease the level...

Review the Safety Controls The control measures that you put in place should be reviewed regularly to make sure they work as planned. Don’t wait until something goes wrong. There are...

The most important step in managing risks involves eliminating them so far as is reasonably practicable, or if that is not possible, minimizing the risks so far as is...

How to Do a Risk Assessment All hazards have the potential to cause different types and severities of harm, ranging from minor discomfort to a serious injury or death. For example,...

A risk assessment is a careful examination of what in your workplace could cause harm to people so that you can then weigh up whether you have taken enough...

Examples of factors to be considered in specific risk assessments Risk of a slip, trip or fall Slips, trips, and falls are the second most common type of accident in most...

Employers may already have in place some safety measures. The risk assessment will tell whether these are adequate. Employers must ensure they have done all that the law requires. Remember...

Carry Out The Risk Assessment It is the employer’s duty, under section 19 of the 2005 Act, to carry out the risk assessment so you should try to do it...

Here are the common definitions of the terms hazard, risk, risk assessment and control as they apply in the workplace. HAZARD HAZARD in general means anything that can cause harm but, for...