Posted By Garry Homer
A decade or so ago when I worked in a large organisation we would do 'cross-functional' workplace assessments, that is where you go to another department and carry out an inspection, documenting all that you come across. The manager of that department then carried out the risk assessment of the new hazards you spotted and checked the validity of those identified previously.

Similarly, I had to do the risk assessments of anything new the other manager highlighted while going around my office.

It is surprising what a fresh pair of eyes see. Things that you have accepted as 'normal' because it has always been there or done that way.

Garry