Risk Assessment

The key to managing safety and the main requirement of the law - is to assess the risks involved with all the things we do and put in place precautions ('controls') to deal with those risks, and apply them. 

 

Some routine activities in the BBC are covered by general risk assessments.  All you need to know is what precautions you need to take, and to take them.  You should find out whether your departments activities are covered in this way.

 

For more complicated or unusual activities and for some specific hazards, separate risk assessments are needed.  It's the responsibility of those in charge of the activity to make sure proper risk assessments are in place.

 

Risk assessment (RA) is the process by which we determine how to keep people safe.  It is not simply a form filling exercise.  A RA form is simply a record of your significant findings.