Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, a; employers have a responsibility to ensure their employees’ health and safety whilst at work.

Risk assessments are an extremely important part of this. Knowing how to complete a good risk assessment will help you to identify, prioritise and put risk mitigation strategies in place.

This course is for anyone that needs to carry out a risk assessment as part of their role. The skills learnt will help you to understand different approaches and techniques for risk management and assessment.

Module 1 - Legislation and Responsibility - In this module you will look at all legislation that underpins health and safety and managing and accessing risk, RIDDOR and consequences of accidents.

Module 2 - Identifying hazards - In this module you will look at 5 steps to risk assessment, risk assessment techniques, spotting hazards and who might be harmed and how.

Module 3 - Likelihood and severity of risk - In this module you will look at likelihood of occurrence, severity of risk, risk scores, high risk areas, good housekeeping, prevention, and environmental issues.

Module 4 - Risk reduction and mitigation - In this module you will look at risk control hierarchy, personal protective equipment, low, medium, and high risk, barriers, reviewing, monitoring, and recording.