Products being used within their end-product application can suffer systematic or random failures. Functional safety standards are designed to help influence the reduction of potential risks of ...

Effective occupational health and safety management requires a structured approach to hazard identification and risk assessment, which is best achieved by a management system. The implementation of an ...

With the growth of automation and increase of workers engaging with machines, I felt there would be some benefit to sharing an example of the safety risk assessments that we do in order to reduce or ...

A new online Slips Assessment Tool (SAT) that evaluates potential risks to workers and others from slipping hazards in the workplace is being launched by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE). SAT has ...

This BBC Safety Guideline sets out how to risk assess. A structured way of thinking about how an activity or situation might cause harm to people or property, helping you to identify measures to ...

The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) wants those handling large sheets of glass to write good risk assessments after a person was struck and injured by several sheets of glass falling from a crate held ...

Research by Community Care has shown that many English councils do not have risk assessments designed specifically for social care staff. Paul Durkin offers advice The duty to carry out health and ...

As a process of identifying fire hazards and evaluating the risks to people, property and assets, a fire risk assessment carried out by a competent person is a crucial part of ensuring a premises ...

A structured way of thinking about how an activity or situation might cause harm to people or property, helping you to identify measures to prevent or minimize the chances of this happening. A way to ...