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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 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 and the risk assessment must be reviewed regularly to ensure that it is still effective.
Staff should be made aware of relevant risk assessments and control measures. This can be evidenced by records of local induction, staff email, 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 riskNET (UCL Login required).
- The risk assessment must be approved by someone with the appropriate knowledge and experience of the work activities.
- The person undertaking the risk assessment and the Approver i.e. Principal Investigator/Line manager/Controller of work must not be the same person.
