I'm planning on delivering some training on risk assessment. What I would like is a selection of various templates to show my colleagues the different options available. If possible I would like some generic completed assessments, assessment templates, quantitative and qualitative etc. Any forms that you may have would be very welcome, if you have some detailed specific assessments for more complex tasks that would also be helpful to show both basic & complex. Many thanks chris.watcham@yahoo.co.uk

I simply use - http://www.hse.gov.uk/risk/casestudies/index.htm Then explain this is an example of bare minimum and we should doing better, it can good to compare the detail in the above to actual assessments and discuss 'suitable and sufficient'

I guess I would tend to focus on the process, with less emphasis on the form. 5 steps works. Whilst scoring matrices have some use in a management context, there is often an over-emphasis on numbers out there. To conduct an assessment you need to know what the relevant acceptable standards are (or where to find them). No amount of forms will help you find the definitive standards. Only then can the key question be answered "am I doing enough, or do I need to do more?". Scoring can be useful in establishing priorities for remedial action where the employer determines more needs to be done. I'm very wary of "generic" assessments out there, which seem to be in widerspread use as an attempt to communicate a safe system of work and which don't actually correlate to the processes of managing health and safety within the organisation. There seems to be a misconception out there that employees must be 'shown' risk assessments.

The more choice etc. U have leads to confusion etc. So I would say; use your company templates and go from there as the staff would then be singing from the same hymn sheet As for the 5 steps; well that is a very basic style which can be developed out but only by those who know as; for example; COSHH, PPE and many other risk assessment types require their own ways of getting to the answer which the 5 steps; for a novice; will not give U