The Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (as part of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974) states that all employers are required by law to protect their employees, service users and others, from harm.
Most businesses and places of work will carry some risk of harm. Risk is defined as the likelihood of a hazardous event occurring and the consequence of the event should it occur. A risk assessment is a careful examination of anything in your workplace that could cause people to suffer an injury or ill health while at work. Assessing risk is one part of the overall process used to control risks in the workplace.
What you'll learn.
This course explores the steps and processes involved in effective risk assessment, and helps learners recognise and understand the risks involved in their place of work, setting, and environment and how they can manage that risk. Delegates will learn how to identify the hazards present in their workplace and surroundings which could lead to injury or illness, decide how likely it is that someone could be harmed and how seriously, take action to eliminate the hazard, or if that isn’t possible, control the risk.
Who is Risk Assessment Training for?
This course is suitable for all organisations.
What are the learning outcomes?
- Define the most common Health & Safety Terms
- Understand Health & Safety Legislation
- Define risk in relation to workplace Health & Safety
- Understand the factors involved in a successful risk assessment
- Know how to perform your own risk assessment and the resources available to help you
- Identify the ways we can recognise and reduce risk within the workplace
- Identify and understand control measures
- Identify Hierarchy of Controls and understand how they can be implemented
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