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Risk Assessment

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Our health & safety legal register includes the option to create and manage your risk assessments online.

The articles in this section will take you through all of the functions within our risk assessment tool. We’d recommend starting with reading our methodology, which takes you through our scoring matrix and any terminology used.

Risk Assessment methodology
Risk Assessment methodology

This article details the methodology used within the

Add a Risk Assessment
Add a Risk Assessment

1. Hover over the Registers tab and click

Add a Hazard to a Risk Assessment
Add a Hazard to a Risk Assessment

You can add a hazard within Step 2

Add an Additional Control to a Hazard
Add an Additional Control to a Hazard

Skip steps 1 and 2 if you have

Set a Residual Risk Score against a Hazard
Set a Residual Risk Score against a Hazard

Residual risk is the remaining risk that exists after all additional controls have

Merge the Residual Risk score
Merge the Residual Risk score

Residual risk is the remaining risk that exists after all additional controls have

View the history of a Risk Assessment
View the history of a Risk Assessment

1. Locate the Risk Assessment in your register.

Set a review date for a Risk Assessment
Set a review date for a Risk Assessment

1. Click the Title of a Risk Assessment