Coronavirus Risk Assessment Sheffield

Creating a full Coronavirus risk assessment for your work place is at times easier said than done. With ever changing guidance, regulations, risk factors and precautions getting the risk assessment for Covid-19 is essential in the safe opening of businesses in Sheffield and around the U.K.

Alongside the need to risk assess the place of work for Coronavirus each individual member of staff and those visiting may also have to be assessed. This process can be continuous as and when the risk data available or individuals circumstances change.

We provide sensible qualitative Coronavirus risk assessments based upon a mixture of guidance data sources including the Health and Safety Executive, British Medical Association and Public Health England.

Risk assessment for Coronavirus is a legal requirement alongside any workplaces standard risk assessments. Although relatively new they will form part of every risk assessment for every business going forwards.

As every work place is different with different risk factors and individuals carrying out different work based activities a full risk assessment should be different for every business. This is compounded for Coronavirus risk assessment by the fact that every individual person has to have a separate risk assessment of their individual risk factors.

Our experienced and fully trained teams can safely risk assess for Coronavirus in your business and confidentially assess the individual members of staff.

Our fast and reliable service with helpful friendly advice and recommendations is used by clients large and small.

Call 01913545870 for more information on Covid-19 Risk Assessment in Sheffield.

COVID-19 (Coronavirus) RISK ASSESSMENT LEGAL REQUIREMENTS

• Assess The Risk To An Employee in Sheffield

  As with any risk factor there is a legal requirement to fully assess all risks to the workforce. The risk assessment must be suitable and sufficient to assess the risk and reduce the risk as far as reasonably practicable. Virus transmission routes should be assessed alongside the likelihood of being exposed to the virus in any given setting.

• Coronavirus Competent Risk Assessment in Sheffield

  Any risk assessment must be completed by a competent person. If you do not heave the skills in house to undertake a full risk assessment we can provide a competent risk assessor to provide assistance and help to ensure compliance.

• Coronavirus Control Measures in Sheffield

  Following the discovery of a risk appropriate control measures must be put into place to reduce the risks.

• Assessing High Risk And Vulnerable People in Sheffield

  There is a need to assess individual members of staff taking into account ethnicity, sex, age and other potentially sensitive risk factors. Having an external company to undertake this type of assessment can reduce internal liability and complaints.

• External Factors for Coronavirus in Sheffield

  Covid-19 sits more to the Health side of Health and Safety than most other risks. As such it is more difficult to assess than standard risks such as manual handling or slips trips and falls. An individuals likelihood to come into contact with the virus must be assessed alongside more standard requirements such as working conditions.

• Record Keeping and On-going Monitoring for Coronavirus in Sheffield

  With the recent changes in GDPR and privacy laws having a formal process for risk assessing Coronavirus is essential in the legal management of the risk. Our risk assessment system provides a score based risk rating without divulging any medical data or personal data beyond the name and the risk rating associated with individual member of staff. This will allow employers to manage the risk and members of staff to understand their individual Coronavirus Risk.

For every Coronavirus Business risk assessment we undertake the following is provided to the client;

• A total Coronavirus risk score for the individuals within a business

• A risk assessment for the business which is site specific and considers the risk posed by Coronavirus

• Control measures required to assist in controlling the risks associated with Coronavirus

• Overall snapshot of staff risk ratings helping to assess the compliance and viability of the company under current conditions and the difference additional controls will make

• Provision of education on Coronavirus during the risk assessment process

• Risk assessment report and associated guidance documents alongside Coronavirus risk rating certificate

Working from our offices in Newcastle, Sunderland, Leeds and Edinburgh we can undertake any size of risk assessment throughout the U.K.

COVID-19 Risk Assessment Tool coming soon!