ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors explain how to plan for risk assessments and explore that they are written in a justifiable order. They discus pitfall of using hazards to identify risks and describes other methods for identifying where significant risk may be found in the organisation’s activities. The authors also explain by describing how this risk identification preparation work may be used for maintaining the risk profile and help to capture organisational change within it. In the UK at least, the term risk assessment has been retrospectively applied to other subjects in the health & safety field. In the 1980s, a new legal requirement to consider chemicals and their harmful effects was launched. A leading supermarket used hazard spotting to identify its safety risk. Reported accidents and also inspections by local enforcement officers added more and more potential hazards to the list.
