A printable basic risk assessment template is five columns and a block, and the template on this site prints it filled from your task rather than blank. The columns: the hazard, who is at risk and how, the control in place, the residual risk, the further action with an owner and a date. The block: the significant findings, because regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, cited below, requires every employer to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to the health and safety of their employees, and regulation 3(6) requires an employer with five or more employees to record the significant findings and any group of employees especially at risk. Author, date, reviewer, review date in the header. Free, without an account.
The five columns
Enough for a simple task: what could harm, whom, what is done about it, what risk remains, what else is needed. A basic template that drops the action column is one where the gap between in place and needed is never written.
The findings block
A few lines: the hazards that could cause real harm and the controls decided. The part the regulation names and the part a basic template most often omits. The HSE's guidance, cited below, gives risk assessment as five steps: identify hazards, assess the risks, control the risks, record your findings, review the controls, and says that if you employ 5 or more people you must record your significant findings.
Printed filled
Enter the task and the rows, print to PDF from the browser. A blank basic template filled later at a desk is filled from memory. A blank grid printed from a website is not an assessment; the template on this site is printed with your task's rows already written, so what comes off the printer is the document.
When basic is not enough
A managed site wants the method statement too; a task with several complex hazards wants the likelihood and severity columns. The full template on this site adds them. From the vendors' own pricing pages, cited below: SafetyCulture lists its Premium plan at $29 per seat per month billed monthly or $24 billed annually, with a free plan for small teams; Contractor Foreman lists its Basic plan at $49 per month for one user. DailyLogDesk Pro is $29 per month for the whole site team.
Questions people ask about printable basic risk assessment template
Is a basic template acceptable to the HSE?
Suitable and sufficient is the test; for a simple task a basic assessment done properly is that.
Do I need to register to print?
No.
Can I add the likelihood column?
Use the full template on this site, which carries it.