Risk assessment is a legal requirement, and if you employ five or more people you must record the significant findings of the assessment.

But it is not difficult and you don't need to pay consultants to help you with it. Who knows your business better than anyone else? You do!

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has produced the web tool to help employers to consider relevant hazards in their office and think about how they control them to keep employees safe.

The tool will take you through the hazards common to an office-based environment...

  • Slips and trips
  • Manual handling
  • Working at height
  • Well-being of workers
  • Computers, laptops and similar equipment
  • Fire
  • Work equipment

Read the HSE Press release at http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2010/hse-officeriskassessment.htm.

The online risk assessment tool for offices can be found at http://www.hse.gov.uk/risk/office.htm.

NOTE: If you would like to fill in a risk assessment without registering, visit http://records.hse.gov.uk/connect.ti/officeriskassess/answerQuestionnaire?qid=127843. This will allow you to print off a record of the assessment and save a record of it, but you won't be able to update it in the future.

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