Workplace Risk Assessment Training

Course Aims:

• Give attendees the confidence to carry out workplace risk assessments in their working environments.
• Enable attendees to better appreciate how the risk assessment process can help to improve the working environment and help prevent injuries and ill health to employees, contractors, customers and visitors.
• Due to the variation of risk in different workplaces, the training can be specifically tailored through desktop practical exercises and Q&A sessions.

Workplace Risk Assessment Training Content:

• An introduction to workplace risk assessment training.
• Approach to risk.
• Principles of managing risk and the legal requirement.
• Definitions of hazard and risk.
• Identifying the task to be assessed and looking for hazards.
• Deciding who might be harmed and what is already being done to manage risk.
• Risk perception, risk grading and evaluation.
• Hierarchy of risk control measures.
• Further action to reduce risk.
• Specific risk assessment forms.
• Other course topics to be discussed and agreed.
• Conclusion, feedback and close.