Risk Assessment at Work

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations [made in 1992 and revised in 1999] require employers to identify hazards and to undertake the assessment, management and control of risks to both persons at work and others who may be affected by work activities. 

Although the concept of risk assessment in its present form is still relatively new to many people, we have been carrying out risk assessments all our lives, probably without realising it. Every time we cross the road we carry out a risk assessment in the split second in which we look both ways to assess the state of the traffic before deciding whether or not it is safe to cross. Many other everyday decisions are based on risk assessment.