Posted By John Murphy
Leeds City Council Health and Safety Inspection Group have developed this excellent training package as part of their commitment to working with businesses to achieve safe and healthy working environments for those at work. The package combines simple and practical advice with interactive learning exercises, to take you through a comprehensive step by step guide to health and safety risk assessment. The tutorial covers the basic principles behind risk assessment, explains the requirements of the Law - along with how to achieve compliance, and gives a simple demonstration case study to show how the different elements of risk assessment can be brought together to achieve real health and safety improvements. The final stage in the training package is a mock risk assessment exercise for you to practice the techniques you have learned.

Completing the tutorial will give you the information, knowledge and skills necessary to implement a successful risk assessment programme in your own place of work. www.leeds.gov.uk/risk

Posted By Philip McAleenan
Charlie,

The following tool is freely available on my web-site, http://www.confinedspaces.com/oac/index.htm

It takes a holistic view of managing and controling work operations and can be applied from simple to complex scenarios.

Regards, Philip

Posted By A. Neal Robertson
There are numerous free risk assessment forms and audit sheets at www.borders-safety.com on the downloads page that you can have a look at & freely adapt. While you are there check the "Safety Site" link on the links page.

Hope this helps you.

Posted By Bill Elliott
Charlie - back in 2002 the NHS Development Agency produced in collaboration with the HSE a CD ROM entitled Risk Assessment: a guide for general practice. The resource is based on the HSE's 5 Steps and includes a risk assessment proforma as well as othe rsupport material. I am not too sure where (or if) you can get a copy but could try www.hda-online.org.uk which is the Health Development Agencies web page. Good luck