Health & Safety Risk Assessment: A Basic Guide

 

Each organisation and department has its own risk assessment form and submission procedure — please contact your appropriate health and safety officer to find the details you need. However, the process of identifying risks and ensuring they are accounted for is the same. Use the steps below, the estimation matrix, and the example form detailing the most common hazards, to help you through the process.

 

 

Health & Safety Risk Estimation Matrix

 

High risk: Requires controls to reduce risk before activity/task can commence (or continue).
Medium risk: Requires controls to reduce risk as much and as soon as is reasonably practicable.
Low risk: All risk should be reduced to this tolerable level, so far as is reasonably practicable.

 

 

Risk Assessment Form Template: Hazards

 

General Health and Safety Risk Assessment Template (Hazards likely to be encountered in a school pupil
campus visit):

 

 

Risk Assessment Form Template: Hazards (continued)

 

General Health and Safety Risk Assessment Template (Hazards likely to be encountered in a school pupil
campus visit)

 

 

Note: Some risk assessment procedures may require a ‘Method Statement’ to accompany the risk assessment form. This is generally a single A4 page briefly outlining the activity for which the risk assessment is being carried out.