Podcast: Risk Assessment

This month, Chris Walker, Head of Health & Safety at Napthens H&S, looks into risk assessments and asks why something we do every day without thinking becomes so difficult when we have to write it down!
Whether we realise it or not, we’re all risk assessing all the time in our everyday lives, and those skills are transferable to workplace risk assessment.
In the workplace, a risk assessment is more than just a document, a piece of paper or an electronic file - it’s a process - a systematic method of looking at your work activities, considering what could go wrong, and deciding on suitable methods of controlling hazards to prevent loss, damage or injury. Yes, in the end you’ll have a document; but it’s the process that goes into creating that document and the process of keeping that document under continual review that brings about the real benefits of risk assessment.
Employers are required by law (the Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999) to assess the risks within their organisations, and this podcast aims to answer:
➡What is a risk assessment?
➡What are we legally required to do?
➡The benefits of risk assessment
➡Does it need to be complicated?
➡5 Steps to risk assessment
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