Risk Assessment

Hazard identification and the assessment of risk and the provision of adequate control is possibly the most important step in the management of your health and safety responsibilities and forms a key part of what the HSE Health and Safety Executive require of your managers and directors.

Carrying out a risk assessment without properly understanding its purpose or having a logical framework to use can lead to the exercise being a complete waste of time - a mere paper exercise that has little impact on the hazards that endanger your employees.

While a risk assessment is the cornerstone of good health and safety management, without having a framework and process to move the risk assessment on to the identification and implication of suitable controls, the hazards remain in the working environment, the associated risks are unresolved, employees continue to be exposed, and the company suffers from a false sense of security.

At Risk Master, through our health and safety consultancy and the Risk Master health and safety management software system, we help you set up and manage your risk assessments. In this way, we will work with you to ensure that they are fully effective and provide you with the tools, framework and confidence to carry them out clearly identifying ‘gaps in control’ and recommending appropriate solutions to achieve ‘adequate control’.

Through our Risk Master health and safety management system, you will be able to carry out a risk assessment within a framework that will then help you with the follow through steps that you need to take and diarise to ensure that they are put in place.

Risk Master has a weighting tool that helps you gauge how effective your management of a risk assessment is. This tool along with many other features and benefits of Risk Master will help you and your organisation provide a fully effective health and safety management system that you can be proud of.