Find easy to use online tools to help new and small businesses with health and safety and simple risk assessments.
Help with Your Risk Assessment
Risk assessment does not have to be complicated, time consuming or involve lots of paperwork.
For most businesses, that means simple, cheap and effective measures to ensure your most valuable asset – your workforce – is protected.
For help and guidance, use the links from this page to the HSE website for:
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Five Steps to Risk Assessment - a straightforward guide to what you need to do
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Office Risk Assessment Tool - allows those working in low-risk office-based environments to do their risk assessment quickly and easily - in just 20 minutes
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Risk Assessment and Policy Template - helps you prepare your risk assessment, health and safety policy and record of your health and safety arrangements
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Example Risk Assessments - examples of how shops, offices and different types of small and medium-sized businesses have approached risk assessment
For fire safety risk assessment (enforced by East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service, not the council) you can find advice and a series of guides for different business types using the link from this page.
Performance Indicator Self Assessment Tool
This simple self-assessment tool is designed to give a measure of how well you are handling health and safety issues and in just 15 minutes will:
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help you to understand how well you identify and manage health and safety hazards
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provide you with targeted guidance to help you improve your management of health and safety
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enable you to compare your performance anonymously with other businesses across sectors and sizes
It is designed to help premiums for Employer's Liability Compulsory Insurance reflect businesses health and safety record. It works by asking a series of questions on the top 10 key hazards that most small to medium-sized businesses encounter and how often these accidents or incidents occur.
However, it is not a comprehensive audit tool. You have a legal duty to consider the whole range of risks that your workers may face while at work. It does not deal with special hazards faced by particular industries.
The Performance Indicator was developed by Business Link, with the Health and Safety Executive, the Association of British Insurers and the British Insurance Brokers Association. You can go to the Performance Indicator tool using the link from this page.
More Online Tools to Help You
You can also go to Health and Safety Topics - Guidance and Tools using the link from this page to find online tools to help you with specific health and safety topics.
These include the STEP e-learning tool to manage slip and trip hazards in the workplace, first aid at work assessment tool, MAC manual handling assessment toolkit, stress management tool and many more useful resources to help you with particular issues.
