What does a risk assessment look like is easy to answer because the shape is standard. A landscape page. A header with the task, the site, the job, the author, the reviewer, the version and the date. Numbered rows, one per hazard, with eight columns: hazard, who is at risk, how, likelihood, severity, control, residual risk, action. A block of significant findings. A footer with the signatures and the review date. 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 exactly that, free and without an account.
The header
One block at the top: task in a sentence, site address, job reference, author, reviewer, version, date. A reader knows in three seconds which task and site the page is about. Anyone opening the file later reads the header first, so it says what, where and when.
The rows
Numbered down the left so the method can reference them; eight columns across. A row reads as a sentence: this hazard, to these people, in this way, this likely, this serious, controlled by this, leaving this risk, with this still to do.
The findings and the footer
A few lines of significant findings, as regulation 3, cited below, names; then the signatures of the author and the reviewer, the review date, and the trigger events. The footer is where the assessor signs and dates it, and where the review date sits.
What it does not look like
A paragraph of prose; a tick sheet; a matrix with no examples. DailyLogDesk Pro keeps the page against the job; 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 what does a risk assessment look like
How many pages is a risk assessment?
One for a simple task; more for a task with many hazards.
Does it need a risk matrix?
A short likelihood and severity scale beside the rows; the words matter more.
Is the template free?
Yes, without an account.