Health and Safety UK will provide risk management services to ensure you have adequate risk assessments for all your business activities. We will review any existing assessment to make sure it is up to date.

(1) Every employer shall make a suitable and sufficient assessment of.

(a) the risks to the health and safety of his employees to which they are exposed whilst they are at work.

The process of risk management involves: Identification,evaluation and control.The requirement to carry out risk assessments is now in many pieces of health and safety law. Set out below are examples along with the relevant regulation.

• General Risks (Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations)
• Substances Harmful to Health (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations)
• Manual Lifting and Handling of Loads (The Manual Handling Operations Regulations)
• Noise at Work (The Noise at Work Regulations 2005)
• Machine Safety (PUWER - The Provision and use of Work equipment Regulations)
• Fire Safety (Fire Safety Order 2005)
• PPE (Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations)
• Safety Health and Welfare (Workplace Health Safety and Welfare Regulations)
• Woodworking Machinery (Safe use of Woodworking Machinery)

• Identify what the hazards are
• Identify who might be harmed and how
• Evaluate the risks from the identified hazards

The law requires that all assessments must be reviewed periodically to ensure they are still valid. This is especially important if conditions change or an accident or near miss occurs.