Why are Risk Assessments Important?

Carrying out suitable and sufficient risk assessments is the primary management tool for effective risk management, as well as a legal requirement for any employer. Risk assessments must be documented wherever five or more people are employed. Risk assessments are a structured and straightforward method of ensuring the risks to health, safety, and wellbeing of staff and others are reduced, controlled, or eliminated. The purpose of risk assessments are: (scroll through)

To identify health and safety hazards
To identify risks presented in the workplace
To ensure additional controls are implemented wherever the remaining risk is considered to be more than low
To prioritise further resources if need to control risks