Chemical Storage & Usage Risk Assessment
The Chemical Storage & Usage Risk Assessment is the most compact style of risk assessment forms available on the site and may be appropriate to businesses or undertakings with businesses where potential hazards are few and the extent and severity of risk is limited. It provides for the "5 Steps to Risk Assessment" recommended by the HSE
1. Look for and identify the hazards;
2. Decide who might be harmed;
3. Evaluate the level of risk(s) arising from the hazards and decide whether existing precautions are adequate or whether more should be done;
4. Record findings;
5. Review assessment(s) from time to time and revise if necessary. The form should be tailored to be "suitable and sufficient" for the nature and size of the operation(s), the likelihood of hazards and the extent and severity of the risk.
It provides for the recording of the following:
1. General and responsibility information;
2. Description of hazards;
3. Consequences of hazards;
4. Risk levels;
5. Persons at risk;
6. Controls and precautions in place;
7. Further action required;
8. Review timetable.
Sections 2 -7 have example wording.
These examples are not exhaustive but provide only an indication of the considerations and answers required to carry out the risk assessment. Alternatively, the Single Hazard Risk Assessment and Action Plan can be used. This provides for recording the risk assessment process for a single hazard/risk in greater detail and a more defined format.
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