To inform or instruct employees on the use of and/or writing of and day to day working of risk assessments

Designed for

All Employees

Pre-requisites

None

Learning Objectives

How to assess the risk in your workplace

Look for the hazards

Decide who might be harmed and how

Evaluate the risks and decide whether the existing precautions are adequate or whether more should be done

To ensure that the manager has sufficient understanding to

Record your findings

Review your assessment and revise if necessary

References

To the Health and Safety booklet INDG 163 Five Steps to Risk Assessment

Training Methods

Classroom lecture

•  Overheads

•  Video

•  View risk assessment used by other company's

•  Produce the Risk Assessment form

•  Discuss on the best person the write the risk assessment

Practical work for the trainee

•  Select a subject and write a risk assessments

•  Group discussion on selected risk assessments

•  Review the assessment and revise it if necessary

Constraints

Classroom for duration of the course

Evidence of Competence / Re-assessment of Competence

Certificate of attendance