Risk Assessment Training

Risk Assessment Training

This Risk Assessment Training is a key Health & Safety course that teaches you both what Risk Assessments are, as well as how and when to perform them. Understand the benefits of comprehensive risk assessments, and comply with basic legislation. 

147 workers were killed at work in 2018/19, good risk assessments prevent accidents and fatalities.

Learning outcomes

• Recall the 5 steps of a risk assessment and how to create a plan of action for identified hazards
• Recognise your commitment to The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
• Identify when to complete a risk assessment and when it is not necessary

Course contents

This training course is broken down into 3 sections

1. Hazards and Risks
2. The 5 Steps to Risk Assessment
3. Risk Assessment Tool

About this course

This online Risk Assessment training is designed to help businesses comply with Health and Safety regulations, as well as learn to and carry out structured risk assessments in the workplace.

Whatever sector your organisation operates in, risk assessments are a crucial part of ensuring employees are safe from harm and that workplace risks are anticipated and reduced as much as is reasonably possible.

By law, every employer must undertake this kind of assessment for health and safety risks within their working environment. This course gives a clear, structured overview of what a risk assessment is, as well as explaining each stage of how to perform one in a clear, step by step manner.

As well as helping with legal compliance, this course will show you how to assign ratings to workplace risks, as well as put appropriate control measures in place. Minimise the risks to your business and your employees today by getting instant access to our risk assessment training.

Our course is broken down into 3 sections; defining hazards and risks and when they need to be recorded, the 5 steps of risk assessment & the risk assessment tool you could use to carry out your assessment.

We also offer an accident reporting training course which complements this course perfectly.

Why is this training important?

Compliance

It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

Risk Assessments provide a structured way of looking at risks and help create a plan of action to deal with them. Whatever the size of your company, you are legally obliged to assess the risks. The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require Risk Assessments to be completed by all employers and self-employed people.

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