Why is Risk Assessment important? As an employer, you must make a suitable assessment of the risks to your employee’s health and safety within your workplace. Risk Assessments are a key part of any business’ safety practices, and this risk assessment course will help you understand how to document a risk assessment.
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This short course on Health & Safety Risk Assessment has been developed by training specialists and explains how you can identify, assess and control risks in the workplace and what controls or measures you need to implement upon assessing those risks.
Legislation states that employing over 5 people requires recording of risk assessments; all employers are required to control risks and this course is suitable for anyone who may be involved in carrying out assessments in their workplace.
It is intended for anyone within a workplace who may get involved with the risk assessment process and provides both theoretical and practical content. Managers should take the Managing Safely® course. This training course will help you understand what is involved in documenting those risks.
This course is designed to help you to learn how to understand risks in the workplace. A risk assessment is an important step in protecting your employers and your place of work. By preparing a risk assessment and evaluating any risks it will help you identify those with the potential to cause real harm and how to put in measures that can readily control risks to ensure your workforce is protected.
You will look at the steps in writing a risk assessment, identifying the hazards and risk activities, deciding who might be harmed and how to evaluate these risks and record your findings. By learning what is a risk and how to assess a risk you will understand how to reduce risk and which risk controls to use.
The course is suitable for all industries, workplace environments and premises and ensures that your company complies with the Management of Health and Safety Regulations.
You will learn what is a risk assessment and how risk assessments carried out.
Understand the types of hazards and what is a hazardous event.
Understand the types of hazards that can cause harm, what you can do about common hazards and how easy it is to overlook some hazards.
Learn what is a risk and how to assess risk.
Understand the hierarchy of control, how you reduce risk and how you decide which risk
control to use.
Learn how to complete a risk assessment form and understand the risk rating matrices.
Multiple Choice Exam
Upon successful completion, you will receive an official IOSH certificate.
2-3 hours
