These regulations require a documented risk assessment process — identifying hazards, recording significant findings, and putting arrangements in place to manage them.
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Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
Requires employers to carry out risk assessments and put in place arrangements to manage health and safety effectively.
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What it covers
These regulations require employers to assess risks to employees and others, record significant findings, appoint competent people to help meet H&S duties, and put in place arrangements for planning, organising, controlling, monitoring and reviewing preventive measures.
Who it applies to
Employers and self-employed people carrying out work activities.
How SafetyOps supports compliance
SafetyOps' Risk Assessments module structures exactly this process - hazards, existing controls, further controls and risk ratings, held as a reviewable record.