I am looking for some advice on how others manage their risk assessment program in the engineering/maintenance departments. I have recently started a new position as a HSE manager for a food ingredients manufacture and one of the areas of weakness identified is the engineering department. They currently have 27 risk assessments that they think covers all tasks from working with steam to maintaining equipment. As with most maintenance departments their time is spent completing PPM's and responding to breakdowns. I am getting some kick back as they are far to busy to complete anymore paperwork and will not be able to complete a risk assessment for every single job they do. How do others manage their risk assessment programme and ensure that they are covered for risk assessments but keeping it to a reasonable and sensible level (dare I say it). As always your advise and support is much appreciated. Thanks Gavin