Risk Assessment for Managers: Five Steps That Actually Protect People
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Understand what a “suitable and sufficient” risk assessment means, apply the HSE’s five steps to a real task and choose controls in the right order.
- Assign to
- Managers and supervisors
- Duration
- 25 minutes
- Evidence
- 11-question quiz
- Your version
- Editable
What they will be able to do
- Understand what a “suitable and sufficient” risk assessment means.
- Apply the HSE’s five steps to a real task.
- Choose controls in the right order.
- Keep the assessment up to date.
The course
- 01What the law expects
- 02The five steps
- 03Keeping it alive
The decision they practise
In the main activity, “Rewrite the risk assessment”, learners rewrite a realistic document line by line and see the effect of each choice. Short animations show “Choosing controls in order” and “Two weeks in”.
How you know they finished
The 11-question quiz mixes multiple choice, matching and sequencing questions and returns to the opening story.
Roll it out with
Relevant legislation and guidance
The course draws on these. Which ones apply depends on the organisation and the role. Finishing the course is a training record.
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
How this course is built
Interactive activity
Learners practise the decision in the course, including what to say when someone pushes back.
Edit it in the builder
On Growth and above, adapt the scenarios and wording to your own workplace, policies and reporting procedures.
A record they finished
The 11-question quiz closes the course, so you can show who completed it.
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