Posted By duncan abbott An ergonomic assessment if carried out by an ergonomist will focus on both the physical and cognitive parts of the task, as well as the work set-up. The idea is to fit the task to the person and the assessment will work out whether the task represents any psycho-social hazards, physiological hazards, biomechanical hazards and so forth. Having identified these hazards, which can be ranked according to urgency, the ergonomists report can advise on how the task/workplace can be redesigned to eradicate or reduce the hazard. A risk assessment on the other hand can be carried out by anybody from a nominated person with a checklist ticking boxes in order to meet basic legislative compliance, to a person that will carry out a specific indepth analysis of what risk a particular hazard or set of hazards represent to a worker or group of workets etc. This type of assessment can be either quantitative or qualitative. This assessment may also explain what the risk is but does offer a solution. That's it