Risk Assessment
Aims:
To raise awareness of the lawful requirement to conduct risk assessments and explain the process to enable the production of workplace risk assessments.
Who will benefit from this course:
Employers, managers, supervisors particularly those who control the work of others.
Course Modules:
- What is Risk Assessment ? – (10 mins) Outlines the legislative requirements and defines the terms ‘risk assessment’, ‘hazard’ and ‘risk’.
- What Should a Risk Assessment Do ? – (10 mins) Outlines the steps which comprise any risk assessment and gives guidance to persons carrying out a risk assessment.
- Looking for Hazards – (15 mins) Hazard spotting, incl. those with technical causes and those which are a feature of both the task and the workplace.
- Conducting & Recording a Risk Assessment – (20 mins) How to produce “suitable and sufficient” risk assessments as required under health and safety legislation.
- Risk/Hazard Control – (10 mins) Control measures, hierarchy of risk control and how to apply them.
- Maintaining Risk Assessments – (10 mins) Techniques to be used to ensure risk assessments remain valid.
- Worked Example – (10 mins)
- Self Test – (15 mins) Twenty five questions to test the student’s understanding of the course. Results are stored for later retrieval by training supervisors.
The average course completion time is:
100 minutes.
Online Training Course List
Select from our range of courses below:
- Asbestos in the Workplace
- Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER)
- Chemical Safety
- Management of Health and Safety at Work
- Confined Space Awareness
- Noise at Work
- Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 2002 (DSEAR)
- Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 98 (PUWER)
- Working with Display Screen Equipment
- Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR)
- Electrical Safety
- Risk Assessment
- Electricity at Work Regulations
- Safe Manual Handling
- Environmental Management
- Safe Working at Heights
- Fire Safety
- Safety Matters
- Heat Stress at Work
- Safety Signs Awareness
- Introduction to Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
- Safety Signs and Signals Regulations
- Introduction to PPE
- Welding Safety
- Legionnaires Disease
- Working Safely with Flammable Liquids and Powders