Risk management
The Health and Safety at Work Act places a duty on every employer to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that employees and other people on our sites (e.g., visitors, contractors, etc.) are not exposed to risks to their health or safety. The HSWA and Management Regulations include a legal requirement for ‘suitable and sufficient’ risk assessments.
Risk Assessment Forms
Health Related Risk Assessments
- Personal Risk Assessment – for any staff with existing medical condition which could be impacted upon due to their occupational activities. If you require medical advice to complete the risk assessment, the line manager can submit a management referral for Occupational Health advice via HR
- Seizure Action Plan – A very useful document for any staff member with a medical condition which involves seizures in order to inform colleagues of what to expect and how to help the individual
- Workplace-Anaphylaxis-Risk-Assessment and Adult-Allergy-Action-Plan
- Pregnant women/new mothers proforma
Other Pro Formas for Risk Assessment
- Office risk assessment – a useful proforma for 100% office based staff
- On the job Pad – for low risk activities that are one off’s, repeated activities should be covered by a full risk assessment (pads can be collected from SHE Group)
Training
If you are involved in writing or reviewing risk assessment then please contact the people below for in person training:
- DL and UKATC – DL SHE Training Team
- RAL and Chilbolton – RAL SHE Training Team
For awareness training on risk assessment, see Risk Assessment Awareness Video
(instructions on how to locate training courses on Totara)
- This video is intended as an awareness tool and refresher for those already trained. It is not intended to replace the in-person STFC risk assessment course, contact your local SHE team to arrange this if you perform risk assessments as part of your role.
- Ignore the link to the free risk assessment tool advertised on slide 22/23. Instead you should use the STFC word template linked above or enter your risk assessment data onto Evotix Assure, also linked below.
- Video takes approximately 30 mins to complete
For more information on the requirement of Regulations and STFC policy relating to risk assessment see:
Where should I store my risk assessments
STFC policy is to store risk assessments on Evotix Assure (excluding health related assessments). For information on how to use Evotix Assure see the below video tutorials:
- Evotix Tutorial 1 – Logging in with single sign-on
- Evotix Tutorial 2 – Dashboard and Navigation
- Evotix Tutorial 3 – Searching for and finding records
- Evotix Tutorial 4 – Creating a new risk assessment
- Evotix Tutorial 5 – Reviewing a risk assessment
- Evotix Tutorial 6 – Archive and re-open a risk assessment
