Risk Assessment In-house Course

This one-day course is designed to give learners adequate knowledge to carry out risk assessments and ensure the risks from workplace activities are adequately controlled.

Course Structure & Content

What impact could a lack of risk assessment training cause

If there was a serious accident in your place of work would a “lack of a risk assessment” be a significant contributory cause?

How will it feel to break the news to a family of a fatality or emergency admission to hospital knowing it could have been avoided if a proper risk assessment was carried out and implemented?

How might this look in court? Can you afford the fine?

What evidence do you have to defend civil claims?

If a HSE Inspector called in to your place of work would you have quality risk assessments to show them and be able to demonstrate legal compliance?

If those questions have prompted a need for action – what needs to shift?

To support you and your organisation in protecting your workforce and meeting legal requirements 16 Degree Shift Training and Consultancy Ltd bring you a one-day risk assessment training course.

Failure to properly control workplace  hazards and risks can result in accidents and ill health that can carry lasting consequences for individuals and their families as well as massive financial and reputation loss to the business.

Many organisations that have been fined in court for failure to carry out a risk assessment 1, as well as communicate and follow the findings.

Our course will help you avoid such consequences as demonstrated in the following specific example.

  1. Wilko fined £2.2m over crush by metal cage

The prosecution described it as a “high culpability case” as there was no risk assessment for the lift or the use of the roll cages, as well as “inadequate training and supervision”.

“Suitable risk assessments had not been carried out, and the general risk assessment covering roll cages didn’t cover the hazards involved in manoeuvring them on uneven surfaces”

In this and other  examples of companies having been prosecuted for failing to carry out a ‘suitable and sufficient’ risk assessment, the inspector or judge have commented that the company’s risk assessment did not properly account for the nature of the work or was considered too generic and therefore did not comply with the legal requirements (Management of Health and Safety at work Regulations 1999 Regulation 3).

Getting risk assessment right is easier than you think and with the right commitment, training and strategy, your business could get on top of health and safety risks in a short period of time.

Planning and execution of a risk assessment training program would mean more staff having the knowledge and skills to properly carry out a risk assessment, record and implement the findings and keep them reviewed. This would certainly go a long way to avoiding injuries and ill-health to workers and others as well as avoiding massive financial loss, business disruption, damage to reputation and legal actions.

Remember a HSE inspector does not need a reason to call in to your workplace and if they did, are all your risk assessments of good quality and the findings have been implemented?

When were they last reviewed?

  • Reasons for risk assessment
  • Legal requirements
  • Key definitions
  • Identification of hazards and risks
  • HSE 5 steps to risk assessment
  • Sources of information Example procedures & forms


Course Assessment

Knowledge Quiz (multiple choice questions)
Complete Risk Assessment – following the course and submit for tutor review.


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