Health and Safety
Executive / Commission
Risk management
Practical steps to protect people from the risks that cause real harm and suffering.
A straightforward guide on how to make a risk assessment. How to assess the risks in your workplace.
A set of principles that spell out what HSE believes risk management should be about.
Examples of what a risk assessment might look like.
This page helps you find good practice guidance for your particular industry.
Risk management involves you, the employer, looking at the risks that arise in the workplace and then putting sensible health and safety measures in place to control them. By doing this you can protect your most valuable asset, your employees, as well as members of the public from harm. During 2004/05, 220 people were killed and over 150,000 were injured at work because of a failure to manage risk.
As an employer, the law requires you to assess and manage health and safety risks - for most businesses this is not difficult to do and HSE has published Five Steps to Risk Assessment to help you. This is not the only way to do a risk assessment, there are other methods that work well, particularly for more complex risks and circumstances. However we believe this method is the most straightforward for most organisations.
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