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Risk assessments

The hazard, the score, the control, and the date it has to be looked at again.

  • On the file

    The hazard, the 5×5 score, the control, the owner, and the review date.

  • Duty

    Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

  • Where it is used

    On the phone, next to the hazard.

What it does

  • Likelihood times severity on a 5×5. Low to 4, medium to 9, high to 16, then extreme.
  • A control from the library, or one written for this job. Elimination first.
  • Who owns the control, and the review date.
  • The register belongs to the job, not a spreadsheet last opened at tender.

On the file

  • The hazard, and who it can hurt
  • Likelihood and severity on a 5×5
  • The band: low, medium, high, or extreme
  • The control, starting with elimination
  • Who owns the control
  • The review date
  • The permit and the RAMS for the same task

Why digital

Against a paper file, a spreadsheet, or a folder in the cabin.

  • The assessment is done on the phone, next to the hazard, not typed up later.
  • A review date that has passed stays visible. It does not wait for someone to remember.
  • The same assessment sits next to the permit and the RAMS for that task.

The duty

UK law. We name it. We do not invent a badge.

  • Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

    Regulation 3. A suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks.

  • HSWA 1974

    The general duty to protect people from harm, so far as is reasonably practicable.

  • Who uses it

    The person who knows the task writes it. The safety lead reads the ones that are due.

  • Sits with

    Next to the hazard register, the permit, and the RAMS for that task.

  • What good looks like

    A current score, a named control, and a review date that has not been left to pass.

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