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To have an effective health and safety management system, it is vital to have high quality risk assessments that are suitable and sufficient.
Risk assessment
All work activities must be risk assessed听and staff must be made aware of the risk assessment and the controls it has identified to ensure their safe working. Controls should be suitable and sufficient to reduce the risk to as low as possible听and the risk assessment听must be reviewed regularly to ensure that it is still effective.
Staff should be made aware of relevant risk assessments听and control measures. This can be evidenced by records of local induction, staff email,听intranet site or staff survey.
Examples of generic risk assessments required in Low Hazard departments:
Recording risk assessments on riskNET
- All risk assessments must be recorded on听riskNET听(果冻影院 Login required).
- The risk assessment must be approved听by someone with the appropriate knowledge and experience of the work activities.
- The person undertaking the risk听assessment听and the Approver i.e. Principal Investigator/Line manager/Controller of work must not be the same person.
