Effective Risk Assessment Case Study

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How can organisations monitor and assess this?

What is a risk assessment

A risk assessment is the process of recognizing the hazards which are present. This is important as it examines what could cause harm to people, so then Health & Safety personal could use ECRICPD to avoid injures to workforce and to make the working environment safe. Risk assessment is also a legal requirement under Health and Safety at Work Act &Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations. Risk assessments must be reviewed regularly especially when there is a change to work processes, when there has been a change to legislation,.

As well as conducting risk assessments to reduce the risk of injury within the workplace employers must also provide duty of care

Hazard

A hazard is something with the potential to cause harm such as a wet floor as it can cause people to slips and fall. Hazards in a work place needs to be reduced, controlled or eliminated go employees have a safe working environment.

What is a risk

Risk is the chance or probability that a person will be harmed or experience an adverse health effect if exposed to a hazard.

5 steps to a risk assessment

There are five steps to create a effective risk assessment. Following the five steps will ensure

1. Identify the hazards–Selected employees would need to find what the potential hazards are.

2. Decide who might be harmed and how– Once spotted experience workers need to decide who might be harmed and how i.e staff or customers so you know what signs to place on and around the hazards to .

3. Evaluate the risks and decide on control measures– Evaluate the risk by deciding if its low, medium or high then take appropriate measures to ensure safety from the hazard.

4. Record your findings and implement them– Recording information is important as it lets the business management know what is

Employers who have five or more employees must create a written health and safety policy by law Furthermore, producessing a wellbeing policy as well can be done in a short amount of time. The policy should explain statement of genral policy, responsability for hralth and safety it must reviewed regularly to make sure it is up to date Training all employees on health and safety is essential

Business benefits

Turnover rates have improved since the site launch down to a low of 0.50% in February 2013.

Sickness absence fell 7% in one month following the www.planAhealth.com re-launch

There was an 18% reduction in referrals to Occupational Health for Muscular Skeletal absence following the introduction of the Physiotherapy Helpline

Wellbeing benefits

Marks & Spencer has seen over 13,000 employees use its wellbeing website.

Over 10,500 employees have now undertaken a wellbeing pledge to take steps, such as drinking more water, to improve their