Risk Assessments

Risk management involves you, the employer, looking at the risks that arise in the workplace and then putting sensible health and safety measures in place to control them. By doing this you can protect your most valuable asset, your employees, as well as members of the public from harm.

As an employer, the law requires you to assess and manage health and safety risks - for most businesses this is not difficult to do. If there are five or more employees at your workplace you are required by law to have a written record of your risk assessment.

Need help with risk assessment?

Start by reading the leaflet '5 steps to risk assessment'

Then have a look at these examples risk assessments that show you what a record of risk assessment might look like. If your industry is not listed, pick the one closest to it and adapt it for your workplace.

Risk assessments should be about identifying practical actions that protect people from harm and injury, not a bureaucratic experience. For the majority of risk assessments short bullet points work well.