Working for a large social landlord and having a number of generic trade based risk assessments that require annual review, I'm wondering what the consensus of opinion is regarding the approach to doing that. The manager responsible for the trades' areas is keen that his front line managers own the process (which I agree with in principal), and in the past we have tried small workshops with a cross section of those managers and a TU rep and have also tasked individual managers with reviewing a single assessment. Personally I think the latter works better as it focuses the mind of that person rather than having a forum in which nobody wants to take ownership. My role is to provide advice and guidance and to moderate the completed assessments in order that the managers responsible for signing them off can be comfortable with them being suitable and sufficient. I welcome your views or ideas please.

Max I agree with Bob. Periodical reviews of RAs should be done in collaboration with others who have a vested interest in them. It is not good practice IMO for one individual to review them. I accept that the iterative process is time consuming and rather tedious if you have a large amount of RAs to review, but there you go.

We review bi annually and this is done in the context of training. We take the some managers, employees. trade union or non trade union reps and train in the risk assessment process and then at the end of the session we review the assessments together. It gets everyone involved. We also look at the legal situation regarding corporate manslaughter and thier role.