Statutory & Mandatory Training: Risk Assessment

Risk Assessments are a vital health and safety step to safeguard the health and wellbeing of staff in the workplace, this course provides guidance for managers, supervisors and workers in a workplace environment.

Overview
Risk assessments are vital to safeguarding the health and wellbeing of staff in the workplace.

Over 600,000 workplace injuries were reported in 2016/17; without risk assessments, that figure could be much higher, costing businesses in lost productivity and putting more workers at risk.

Training outcomes 

• Define what is meant by hazard and risk.
• Describe how to use a health and safety risk assessment.
• Explain how and when to report health and safety risks that have been identified.
• Describe how risk assessments can help in dilemmas between an individual’s rights and health and safety concerns.

Accreditation
This course is accredited by CPD. The certificates, awarded upon successful completion, can be used to log your hours against.

Duration
The course usually takes between 1-2 hours to complete, depending on the speed of learning. Learners do not have to complete all the training in one session as progress is recorded throughout and the training can be paused and resumed in our learning management system at any time.

Target audience
This course is aimed at people in a workplace environment.

Entry requirements
There are no entry requirements for this course.

Test and certificate
Each end of course test consists of 15 multiple choice questions. Learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark, and, if necessary, may attempt the test six times at no extra cost.

If learners do not achieve the 75% pass mark, further attempts may be given by contacting our support team.

Learners will be able to download a digital certificate on completion of each course. This can be printed, and we suggest you keep it for your records.

Legislation
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (1999)