Resources

Practical guidance

• 5 steps to risk assessment [80KB]
• Risk Assessment and Policy Template
  This template brings together your risk assessment, health and safety policy and record of health and safety arrangements into one document to help get you started and save you time.  Use the example risk assessments and example health and safety policy as a guide for completing the template, adapting it for your own workplace.

Other useful references

• Introduction to health and safety [252KB]
  This booklet shows you the kind of things which cause the more common accidents and harm to people's health. It lets you see what applies to your work activities, and tells you how you can get more help and information.
• Essentials of health and safety at work
  This booklet explains what the law requires and helps employers put it into practice. Chapter 1 suggests how to tackle the basics of health and safety, also how to identify, assess and control the activities that might cause harm in a business. Chapters 2 to 25 are for anyone who needs to know more about a particular health and safety subject. There are several new chapters dealing with, slips and trips, work at height, contractors and agency workers and general fire safety, as well as new sections on subjects such as stress, rehabilitation and sickness absence.
• Leading health and safety at work [448KB]
  This guidance will help directors ensure that health and safety risks involved in an organisation's activities are managed properly and that they take adequate measures to protect their employees, employees of contractors and members of the public. It is aimed at all the members of top-level management who provide strategic leadership and direction in running any business or organisation.
• Successful Health and Safety Management
  Provides guidance for directors, managers, health and safety professionals and employee representatives who want to improve health and safety in their organisations. Available from HSE Books.

Other useful HSE web pages

Publications

• HSE publishes a range information dealing with health and safety issues.

Your industry

• Managing violence in licensed and retail premises
• Good practice guidance for your particular industry is available here

Guidance produced by other organisations

Volunteering England supports HSE's Risk Management campaign

The national volunteering development agency in England is calling for excessive risk management to be challenged as it is stopping potential volunteers coming forward. Volunteering England has commissioned research 'On the Safe Side', that revealed that over one million volunteers have considered stopping volunteering through fear of legal action. In response Volunteering England has launched a 'Risk Toolkit' for volunteer-involving organisations.

• Volunteering England website