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Making Risk Assessments Work

Effective Health & Safety Risk Assessments are working reviews designed to make your workplace or project a safer environment.

With particular expertise in chemical laboratories, biotechnology and high tech research environments, construction sites, office and manufacturing premises our Consultants provide risk management support within your business.

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Health and Safety Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment is an intrinsic part of Health and Safety. It first appeared in legislation 1988 when the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health became law.

There is a legal requirement under the Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations (MHSWR) to undertake risk assessments. The HSE publication "5 Steps to Risk Assessment" is a good practical and simple guide. There are also obligations under some legislation to carry out risk assessments e.g.

  • COSHH
  • DSEAR (Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations)
  • Manual Handling
  • Working at Height
  • Fire
  • Display Screen Equipment
  • Confined spaces
  • Young Workers
  • Pregnant Workers

Our approach to risk assessment is to look at how a company operates and develop a risk assessment tailored to their requirements. This can be very simple assessments for low risk activities or very complex systems for high risk hazards.

It should be remembered that the risk assessment is a tool that is used to ensure your operational hazards are controlled. The risk assessment does not need to be read by all staff, however the controls used must be implemented and used by the workforce.

Also a risk assessment is a dynamic document that should be changed or reviewed when, for example, work procedures change, new equipment is purchased or an accident happens.

Our experience of risk assessments cover various environments including offices, construction sites, chemical laboratories, biotechnology and high tech research environments.

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Following the sad death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, we will be closing on September 19th in line with the announced bank holiday, for her majestys funeral. We will be working as normal on Tuesday. Thank you for your service ma'am. 

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2019 - 2020 observed 55% of all lost working days attributed to work related mental ill health. Workload, lack of support, violence, threats or bullying and changes at work are estimated to be the main causes of work-related stress, depression or anxiety based on 2009/10-2011/12 LFS data. This shows a marked increase over previous years. 

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