I am looking to put in place an assessment of our site in order to comply with DSEAR requirements. Are there any template check lists or risk assessment formats that are available so i can make this as less painful as possible . Any points are greatly appreciated

OK as no one else has offered advice and I wasn't that helpful... Are you aware of: http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/l138.htm it might be a good starting point, really need more info tho because if you are a chemical engineer I would write an entirely different answer than I would for someone with a NEBOSH cert and office based background. We have too many negative posts saying you must be competent and not much else, this is one area where that notion definately applies but as yet we have no idea what you are trying to do. If you are trying to assess a pipe range for a highly flammable material you will need different skills to if you are risk assessing the storage of a limited amount of flammables in a small lab. Just trying to 'spark' some debate so maybe we can help more. on that poor pun it's home time...

Just PM'd you about some very good DSEAR consultants I know. Cheers Ian