Posted By Bill Elliott Mike, the "care" aspect of dealing with people with mental health problems is covered in clinical risk assessments in our organisation. These assessments deal very much with "risk taking" for example, when on "field" trips and will be very much linked to the individual, the diagnosis (or diagnoses), treatment regime, medication etc. This will determine the level of support needed, eg 1 to 1, 2 to 1 and so on. This risk taking exercise informs the health & safety risk assessment , so the two have to be married together and can not be looked at in isolation. One is determing the acceptabilty of risk to the "client", the other is dealing with the risk to the staff, general public etc.