Risk Assessment
This course explains the legal duty to assess risk under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and walks through HSE's five steps to risk assessment. You will learn how to rate risks, apply the hierarchy of control, consider people at particular risk and carry out dynamic risk assessments, and when an assessment should be reviewed.
- Modules
- 4
- Duration
- About 45 minutes
- Pass mark
- 80%
- Assessment
- 10 questions from a bank of 16
Learning outcomes
- ✓Explain the legal requirement for a suitable and sufficient risk assessment and when findings must be recorded.
- ✓Apply HSE's five steps to assess the risks in a work activity.
- ✓Use a likelihood and severity matrix to rate and prioritise risks.
- ✓Select control measures using the hierarchy of control.
- ✓Identify groups who need particular consideration, such as young workers, new and expectant mothers and lone workers.
- ✓Carry out a dynamic risk assessment and recognise when an assessment must be reviewed.
Course contents
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Module 1: Risk Assessment and the Law
Video (5 scenes) · 2 lessons · 2 practice questions
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Module 2: The Five Steps
Video (5 scenes) · 2 lessons · 3 practice questions
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Module 3: Rating and Controlling Risk
Video (4 scenes) · 2 lessons · 2 practice questions
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Module 4: People at Risk, Dynamic Assessment and Review
Video (5 scenes) · 2 lessons · 2 practice questions
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Final assessment & certificate