Course overview
What this course covers
Learn how to complete a practical workplace risk assessment from start to finish, including hazard identification, legal duties, risk rating, control selection, action planning, communication and review.
This course is built around the same structure used in the HSE College Risk Assessment Training modules. It explains what a suitable and sufficient assessment should include, how to decide who may be harmed, how to judge risk sensibly, how to apply the hierarchy of control and how to record clear actions that can be followed in the workplace.
Who Should Attend
Suitable for supervisors, managers, team leaders, safety representatives, permit users, contractors and employees who help prepare, review, brief or follow workplace risk assessments and safe systems of work.
Learning Outcomes
- Explain why risk assessments are required and how they prevent harm
- Identify hazards, people at risk and realistic harm scenarios
- Understand legal duties and workplace responsibilities linked with assessment
- Use a structured risk assessment process from task review to action close-out
- Apply the hierarchy of control before relying on PPE
- Communicate assessment findings so workers understand the controls
- Know when a risk assessment must be reviewed, updated or escalated
Course Content
- Introduction to Risk Assessment
- Legal Duties and Responsibilities
- Hazard and Risk
- The Risk Assessment Process
- Control Measures and Safe Systems of Work
- Practical Workplace Examples
- Practical Risk Assessment Form
- Communication, Training and Monitoring
- Course Summary
- Final Assessment / Quiz
Course Application Focus
Learners should be able to contribute to practical workplace risk assessments, challenge unclear controls, understand action priorities and communicate assessment findings to the people carrying out the work.
Legal / Regulatory Context
Relevant UK context includes the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, which require suitable and sufficient assessment of risks, and the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. Assessment detail should be proportionate to the activity, people affected and level of risk.