Risk Assessment

A risk assessment is an important step in protecting the workers and the business as well as complying with the law. It assists the management to focus on the risks that are present at the workplace i.e. the ones with the potential to cause real harm.

Carrying out a risk Assessment on all workplaces is a requirement of the Occupational Safety and Health Act 2007, as contained in Part II, Section 6 (3), (4) and (5). According to the Act, the definition of risk is the probability of occurrence or adverse effect from a substance on, people or the environment combined with the magnitude of the consequence of that adverse effect.