The Five Staps

5 Steps To Risk
Assessment
Step One
Identify the
hazards
Methods Of Identifying Hazards
• Health & safety audits

• Academic journals
• Research papers
• Consultation with other co-workers
• Accident reports
• Trade organisations
• HSE statistics
Methods Of Identifying Hazards
• Similar Institutions
• Outside Advice (manufacturers of
equipment and materials)
• Internal Advice (University Safety &
Health Services)
Step Two
Identify who
might be
harmed
Who Might Be At Risk
•Employees
•Contractors
•Visitors
•General public
•Children
•People who share
the workplace
•Must be people specific
Don’t forget vulnerable groups such as people with
disabilities, pregnant staff and those with little experience
or training.
Step Three
Evaluate the risks

Risk Analysis
• Hazards and hazardous
situations are
systematically
identified.
• The level of risk
associated with each
hazard (situation) is
estimated
Risk Evaluation
• A judgement is made as to
whether the level of risk is
acceptable or tolerable
• Will include a judgement on

corrective or preventative
measures
Completing the Risk assessment
Organising actions and responsibilities to reduce
the hazards and risks to acceptable levels:
• Elimination of hazard (do I have to do this?)
• Substitution (materials, equipment etc)
• Physical safeguards (machinery guarding, extraction etc)
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Safe working procedures
• Or any combination of above
Completing the Risk assessment
Writing safe working procedures or

instructions
• General procedures may be in local rules
• Specific procedures must be included in the risk

assessment
Evaluating The Risks
-some considerations
• Industry standards
• Legal requirements
• Precautions already taken
• Cost (so far as is reasonably practical)
• Different working conditions i.e. weather
• Numbers of people at risk
• Severity of injury
• Probability
• Length of exposure/frequency
Step Four
Record your
findings
Recording the Risk Assessment
The Elements
• A description of the area or task
• The hazards that personnel may be exposed to
• Details of the personnel who may be exposed to the

hazards
• Details of which hazards are significant and those which
are acceptable (and why)
• The precautions in place, or to be put in place, to

reduce the significant hazards to acceptable levels
• How the precautions are to be maintained

(management of systems, inspection of physical
precautions etc)
• Details of additional risk assessments i.e. hazardous

substances (COSHH)
• Emergency Procedures
• Details of person completing the risk assessment
• Details of person countersigning the risk assessment
• Date, school or group, location details etc.

Evaluate the risks
• Use the risk matrix on the form

• Estimate the risk before control measures
• Identify control measures to lower the risk
• Estimate the risk after control measures (residual
risk)
• Can you lower the risk further? Ideally all LOW
• Not all risks are injury – what about financial loss?
Consequence
Injury requiring
medical treatment, or
Minor injury or no Injury requiring first
with possible long
apparent injury aid
term negative health
effects
Will probably not

occur in most Low Low Medium
L
circumstances
i
k
e May occur in some
l Low Medium High
circumstances
i
h
o
o Likely to occur in
d most Medium High High
circumstances
Signatures
• all Low Risk - Principal Investigator (YOU). If not

competent to do so, then also a Competent Person
• any Medium Risk - Principal Investigator and
Competent Person (not the same)
• any High Risk – PI and CP, then referred
to Head of School and Safety Manager
for formal authorisation
Step Five
Review the assessment

Summary
Recording the significant findings of the risk
assessment.
• What the task is
• Who is responsible/supervisor
• Where the risk assessment applies, who is affected
• List of hazards
• List of precautions
• Details of safe working procedures
• Emergency procedures
• Reference to other associated risk assessments i.e. COSHH,
manual handling, PPE etc.
Summary
Organising actions and responsibilities to reduce
the hazards and risks to acceptable levels:
• Elimination of hazard
• Reduce by substitution (materials, equipment etc)
• Physical safeguards (machinery guarding, extraction
etc)
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Safe working procedures
• Combination of above
CREATING A RISK REGISTER IN
MICROSOFT PROJECT
A thorough project management effort will include an

investigation of project risk. Microsoft Project does not, per
say, have a risk register. However, it does have all the
functionality needed to create a risk register table. After
generation of a risk register save the table for other project
schedules. In this way risk assessment will become a
common and valuable fixture in the project management
effort.

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5 Steps To Risk

• Health & safety audits

Evaluate the risks

• Will include a judgement on

Writing safe working procedures or

• General procedures may be in local rules

• Specific procedures must be included in the risk

• A description of the area or task

• The hazards that personnel may be exposed to

• Details of the personnel who may be exposed to the

• The precautions in place, or to be put in place, to

• How the precautions are to be maintained

• Details of additional risk assessments i.e. hazardous

• Details of person completing the risk assessment

• Details of person countersigning the risk assessment

• Date, school or group, location details etc.

• Use the risk matrix on the form

Will probably not

• all Low Risk - Principal Investigator (YOU). If not

Review the assessment

A thorough project management effort will include an

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