Online course
Risk assessment in practice
How to carry out a risk assessment that's genuinely useful: spotting hazards, judging risk, choosing controls, writing it down, acting on it and keeping it up to date, with a full worked example.
- 4units
- 12lessons
- 2.5 hoursto complete
- 3 yearssuggested refresher
Included with every paid plan, from £79 a year.
What the course covers
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What a good risk assessment is
What the law requires, how to judge risk with likelihood and severity, and how to think about everyone who could be harmed.
- Why we assess risk, and what the law says
- Judging risk: likelihood and severity
- Who could be harmed
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Doing the assessment
Preparing well, finding the hazards, and deciding whether existing controls are enough and what more is needed.
- Preparing: scope, people and information
- Finding the hazards
- Evaluating controls and deciding what more to do
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Recording and acting
Writing assessments people can use, turning findings into an action plan, and knowing when a specific assessment is also needed.
- Writing it down well
- Turning findings into actions
- When a specific assessment is also needed
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Keeping it alive
Reviewing assessments, communicating them so they change behaviour, and a complete worked example.
- Reviewing and managing change
- Communicating the findings
- Worked example: a small joinery workshop
Assessment and certificate
- A short quiz after each unit, with the reason for every answer.
- A final assessment of 20 questions; the pass mark is 70%.
- Pass it on a paid plan for a certificate of completion with a QR code anyone can check.
This is online awareness training, not an accredited qualification. It doesn't on its own show someone is competent for a task. This course teaches the method. Competence also comes from experience of the work, and complex risks may need specialist help.