A template risk assessment is the shape, and the shape is the easy part: the header, the numbered rows with eight columns, the significant findings block, the footer with signatures and the review date. The content is the walk of the task on the site with the person who will do it, and a template filled at a desk without the walk is the generic assessment a site returns. 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. The risk assessment template on this site prints the assessment from the walk's figures, free and without an account.
The shape
Header: task, site, job, author, reviewer, version, dates. Rows: hazard, who, how, likelihood, severity, control, residual risk, action. Findings block. Footer. The template supplies all of it and it is the same for every task.
The content
The hazards found on the site, the controls that fit them, the residual risk judged, the actions with owners. From the walk. 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.
Where it is filled
On the site, on a phone, with the operative; the tool prints the assessment from what is entered there. At the desk a week later it is a recollection. A template filled at the desk describes a site the assessor imagined; the walk finds the hazards that are actually there.
Kept
In its version against the job, with the method built from it. DailyLogDesk Pro keeps it; the template prints it. 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 template risk assessment
Is a template risk assessment acceptable?
The shape always is; the content is acceptable when it is the site's.
Can one template serve every task?
The shape, yes; the rows are the task's each time.
Is the template free?
Yes, without an account.