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The Importance of Risk Assessments in the Workplace

By Louise G

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Published: 31Mar2010
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All businesses must complete a risk assessment of the workplace to make sure that all obligatory safety measures are in place.

Although, the law does not anticipate or require that a business will eliminate every risk, it does require you to protect the people in your work area as much as possible. A thorough risk assessment will help your business uncover potential risks that may cause real harm and ought to be reassured against. Your risk assessment should look for hazards including areas that may cause slips, trips or falls, exposure to hazardous substances, fire and explosion. Understand who may be harmed and how. Assess the risks and decide if on hand safety measures are ample or if more needs to be done. It is important to maintain records of all findings, put into action necessary changes and review and update your policies periodically.

As an employer, you may be obliged to evaluate and deal with safety and health risks. Regardless of the size of your business, accidents and negligence on your part can ruin your business. You are not expected to do away with all risk. However, you are obligated to protect individuals as far as rationally feasible. Risk assessments are an important method of protecting your employees and your business.

If you own or manage a business you may be obliged to examine the potential hazards in your workplace which could cause harm to visitors and employees. Doing this will allow you to better understand the options you have or the actions you should take to best prevent harm by implementing precautions.

If you have a small business and you are fully certain of all that is involved in your workplace, you can complete the assessment on your own. In this situation you do not have to reserve the services of professional health and safety experts. However, if you are in charge of the risk assessment for a larger company, you should ask an expert inspector to help you identify potential hazards.

During the risk assessment process, all hazards ought to be considered during workplace inspection and policy and procedures evaluations. A hazard can be anything that can cause harm. It can be a functional in nature or procedural. The risk is the probability that an event may occur such that it would cause harm to someone, jointly with a suggestion of how serious the harm might be.

Louise G is a prolific business author and business consultant. Louise has been instrumental in the development of successful marketing strategies for many leading internet businesses. Examples of Louises work can be found at http://www.grip-potential.com/ for risk assessment

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