Risks should be avoided
As an employer, you’re required by law to protect your employees, and others, from harm.
Assessing risk – and identifying hazards – are just part of the overall process used to control risks in your workplace. The subsequent step is the development of a Method Statement, which is a set of carefully considered instructions that detail how a potentially challenging activity can be safely executed. These can be site specific, task specific or both.
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Risk Assessments and Method Statements are both relatively complex processes, but with Inspectas in your corner, you can get the peace of mind you need by taking advantage of over 20 years of our experience.
Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, the minimum you must do is:
- Identify what could cause injury or illness in your business (hazards)
- Decide how likely it is that someone could be harmed and how seriously (the risk)
- Take action to eliminate the hazard, or if this isn’t possible, control the risk
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Risk Assessments
Risk management is a step-by-step process for controlling health and safety risks caused by hazards in the workplace where you:
- Identify what could cause injury or illness in your business (hazards)
- Decide how likely it is that someone could be harmed and how seriously (the risk)
- Take action to eliminate the hazard, or if this isn’t possible, control the risk
- Record your findings
- Review the controls
We have many years of experience working with Clients to assist in the hazard identification and risk assessment process. We work with you to fully understand your activities along with identifying key hazards.
Method Statements
The risk assessment will identify if an activity is high risk or complex, while the method statement will detail how the job or task is to be carried out safely.
A method statement is a document that describes how to do a task safely. You can think of a method statement like a set of instructions or a plan for the work. Method statements are also known as safe systems of work, safe work method statements however amount to the same thing.
The method statement describes a logical sequence showing how a job is to be carried out in a safe manner and without risks to health. It should include all of the risks identified in the risk assessment and measures needed to control those risks.
Method statements are most commonly used in high-risk sectors like construction, engineering, and heavy industry, as these sectors have specific high-risk tasks that need to be carried out in a specific way.
