Task & activity assessments
Maintenance, servicing, cleaning, loading, handling, use of work equipment, contractor activities and routine/non-routine tasks.
Tasks • activities • areas • processes
Workplace Risk Assessments
Suitable, proportionate risk assessments for work activities and workplaces, focused on identifying significant hazards, evaluating controls and turning findings into practical actions.
Risk management
More than a risk matrix.
A useful risk assessment describes the work clearly enough that another person can understand the hazards, who may be harmed, the controls already in place and what further action is required. Numerical scoring can help prioritise, but it does not replace judgement about whether controls are suitable and sufficient.
Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, employers must assess risks to employees and others who may be affected by their work. HSE guidance emphasises that risk assessments should be suitable and sufficient, proportionate to the risk and reviewed when circumstances change.
What Vulcan can assess
Examples of workplace assessment work
Area assessments
Workshops, stores, plant rooms, warehouses, compounds, yards, offices and mixed-use work areas.
Project & RAMS support
Risk-assessed method statements and task planning where the work method, sequencing, interfaces and controls need to be set out clearly.
Review of existing assessments
Check whether existing documents match the actual work, whether controls are implemented and whether changes have made the assessment outdated.
Action planning
Convert inspection or assessment findings into prioritised, owned actions with realistic close-out evidence.
Contractor & interface risk
Risks created where contractors, clients, facilities teams or multiple employers share a workplace or interact with the same hazards.
Assessment method
What the document records
- Activity and scope
- Hazards and foreseeable harm
- People or groups exposed
- Existing controls
- Assessment of remaining risk
- Additional controls required
- Action owner and priority
- Residual risk after controls
- Review triggers and assumptions
Typical hazard categories
Work equipmentVehiclesManual handlingWork at heightChemicalsFireElectricityPressureNoiseSlips/tripsContractorsMaintenance
Relevant HSE framework
HSE's HSG65 describes effective health and safety management as including risk assessment, planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review. Risk assessment should lead to preventive and protective measures that are actually implemented and maintained.
Need a workplace risk assessment or RAMS?
Send a description of the activity, site and workforce. Existing procedures, photographs, drawings and equipment information can be reviewed as part of scoping.