Health and safety risk assessments
You must carry out regular and comprehensive The process of looking at what hazards may be present when doing a certain activity, or in a certain area, and the steps which can be taken to eliminate or reduce those dangers. within your business. These are not just a box-ticking exercise. You must take action to minimise any risks to health and safety that you find. Failure to do so can endanger your Anybody who works for a business, whether as an employee, casual worker, apprentice, agency worker or freelancer. and other people, and even result in criminal convictions and significant fines from the Health and Safety Executive. Britain's national regulator for workplace health and safety.. This section and template documents will help you to carry out general The process of looking at what hazards may be present when doing a certain activity, or in a certain area, and the steps which can be taken to eliminate or reduce those dangers. in your business, and keep records of them as required by law.
When to do a general risk assessment
- 1.Do I have to do a general risk assessment?
- 2.Do I have to do a risk assessment for staff who work from home?
- 3.How often should I perform a general risk assessment?
- 4.Must I review my general risk assessment after every accident?
- 5.Do I have to perform a risk assessment for staff working off-site?
- 6.Have I done enough if I just do a risk assessment on paper?
Risk assessments for business premises
Risk assessments for staff who work remotely
Who to include in a general risk assessment
- 13.Who do I include in my general risk assessment?
- 14.Do I have to consider women of child-bearing age in my general risk assessment?
- 15.Do I have to do a separate risk assessment for staff who are pregnant or new mothers?
- 16.Do I have to review my individual risk assessments for pregnant women and new mothers?
- 17.Do I have to include young people in my risk assessment?
- 18.Do I have to do a separate risk assessment for young people who I employ?
- 19.How do I include young people in my risk assessment?
- 20.Do I have to include disabled people in my risk assessment?
- 21.Do I have to do a separate risk assessment for disabled people?
- 22.How do I include disabled staff in my risk assessment?
- 23.Do I have to include lone workers in my risk assessment?
- 24.How do I include lone workers in my risk assessment?
Risk assessment record keeping
- 25.Do I have to keep a written record of my general risk assessments?
- 26.What must my written record of my risk assessments include?
- 27.How long should I keep copies of my general risk assessments?
- 28.Do I have to give my employees a copy of my risk assessments?
- 29.If I employ children do I have to provide any information about health and safety to their parents?
Health and safety at work in relation to coronavirus
- 30.What are my health and safety obligations in relation to coronavirus?
- 31.What should I do if there is a COVID-19 outbreak at my workplace?
- 32.Are staff required to self-isolate if they have a positive test or COVID-19 symptoms?
- 33.What should I do if a staff member receives a positive test result or develops coronavirus symptoms while at work?
- 34.Should I require people to wear face masks in my workplace?
- 35.Do I have to collect contact details of customers who visit my workplace?
- 36.How do I check whether my workplace is adequately ventilated?
- 37.How can I improve natural ventilation?
- 38.How can I improve mechanical ventilation (including air conditioning)?
- 39.How can I balance ventilation with my workers keeping warm?
- 40.How can I protect staff who are at higher risk from coronavirus?
- 41.How can I protect pregnant staff from COVID-19 risks?
- 42.How can I support staff wellbeing at the workplace during COVID-19?
- 43.How can I support staff with long COVID?
COVID-19 risk assessment
This template risk assessment sets out possible actions you can take to prevent and/or minimise the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in your workplace. The actions set out in this risk assessment are not compulsory and you should assess what is appropriate for your particular workplace. There is no longer a requirement for most employers to explicitly consider COVID-19 risks in their health and safety risk assessments, or carry out a specific COVID-19 risk assessment, although you may choose to do so. However, you should continue to take any COVID-19 risk mitigation steps that are appropriate for your circumstances. Note that employers whose staff specifically work with COVID-19 (eg laboratory staff or healthcare workers caring for infectious patients) must continue to undertake a risk assessment that considers COVID-19. To assist with this risk assessment, you may wish to use COVID-19 individual risk assessment to find out whether any of your staff members are more vulnerable to the effects of coronavirus.
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Annual action plan (health and safety)
This annual action plan (health and safety) helps you plan your health and safety actions for the year. It sets out the most common health and safety checks you are likely to need to complete (on a daily, weekly, monthly, six monthly, annually, and five yearly basis) and allows you to efficiently record your comments. You can also add your own actions specific to your business. In addition to this annual action plan (health and safety) you must complete regular risk assessments. You can find these templates at General risk assessment for a shop or other business open to customers , General risk assessment for an office , General risk assessment for remote workers , and Fire safety risk assessment .
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