Stages of Risk Assessment

When carrying out health and safety or fire safety risk assessment, one must follow a set of steps to ensure all factors are considered to arrive at a comprehensive report, effective for the purpose for which the risk assessment was carried out in the first place. The following are the FIVE stages of risk assessment.

1. Identify The Hazard: define the work area/ environment including the boundaries and neighboring stakeholders

2.Identify Who Is At Risk: Workers, Visitors, Teenagers and Children, Trespassers, Disable, Emergency Crew (Fire Service, Ambulance, Police)

3. Evaluate Current Control Measures: Risk assessment of adequacy of control measures in place.

4. Report Significant Finding: Risk prioritization subject to likelihood and severity.

5. Review Risk Assessment: regularly to ensure an import of the changing work environment and inc-operation of  developing risk.