Managing Safely During The Coronavirus Outbreak
Everyone needs to assess and manage the risks of COVID-19. As an employer, you also have a legal responsibility to protect your workers and others from the risk to their health and safety. This means you need to think about the risks they face and do everything reasonably practicable to minimise them, also recognising that you can’t completely eliminate the risk of COVID-19.
To do this, you must make sure that the risk assessment for your business addresses all the risks of COVID-19. A risk assessment is not about creating huge amounts of paperwork, it’s about identifying sensible measures to control the risks in your workplace. As an employer, you’re required by law to protect your employees, and others, from harm. Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, the minimum you must do is:
– Identify what could cause injury or illness in your business (hazards)
– Decide how likely it is that someone could be harmed and how seriously (the risk)
– Take action to eliminate the hazard, or if this isn’t possible, control the risk
The IOSH Managing Safely course is the market-leading health and safety course for line managers, it’s tried, tested and trusted. Designed to provide all managers with the confidence and enthusiasm to apply knowledge to the workplace, this course is unlike any other. As part of the Managing Safely course a risk assessment assignment must be undertaken and submitted. These assessments are an important step in protecting workers and businesses, as well as complying with the law. It helps focus on the risks that really matter in the workplace – the ones with the potential to cause real harm.
At First4Safety our goal is to make workplaces safer – Using the recent government advice we have created a Risk Assessment template for COVID-19 that we hope will help in making your workplaces COVID secure … This template is free to download and for you to adapt accordingly to reflect your own business…..
It’s available to download from this link … COVID-19 Risk Assessment
The Risk Assessment template for COVID-19 contains an idea of possible issues and risks you need to be thinking about and acting on as we get back to what’s being termed, the ‘new normal’. If you need more information – IOSH Managing Safely is the ideal course to learn more about the Risk Assessment Process. Our course is 100% Online meaning you can study from anywhere, and at a time that is convenient for you. Official IOSH Certification is awarded to successful candidates, and full expert training support is on hand, which is why we can guarantee you and your team members will pass.
Find out more …. IOSH Managing Safely
