Resources

Practical guidance

• Microsoft Word and Open Document Format risk assessment templates.
  These templates bring 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

• The health and safety toolbox: How to control risks at work
  This site provides helpful areas of advice, which apply to all workplaces.
• Leading health and safety at work
  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