What is a dynamic risk assessment is the judgement made at the task when the site is not as the written assessment described: the ground is softer, the wind is up, another trade is in the area. Stop, adapt or continue, decided by the person there. It does not replace the written assessment; it is the check that the written assessment still fits, and it is recorded on a point-of-work card so the judgement can be shown afterwards. The risk assessment template on this site prints the written assessment the dynamic one checks against, free and without an account.
What it is
A trained person's judgement at the point of work: has anything changed, are the controls in place, is it safe to proceed. The emergency services use the term for decisions made as an incident unfolds; a contractor uses it for the morning the site is not as planned.
What it is not
A substitute for the written assessment. A crew that says it does dynamic assessments and has no written ones has no controls decided in advance to check against. 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.
How it is recorded
A point-of-work card with five questions and a signature, referencing the RAMS by number; a no stops the task until the foreman decides. The card is what turns a judgement into a record. 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.
What it feeds
A change found dynamically is a change to the written assessment: the RAMS revised, re-briefed and re-signed. DailyLogDesk Pro keeps the cards with the RAMS they checked; the template prints the RAMS. 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 is a dynamic risk assessment
Who can make a dynamic risk assessment?
A trained, competent operative, with the foreman deciding on any stop.
Does a dynamic assessment need to be written?
The judgement is made on the spot; the card is how it is shown to have been made.
Is the template free?
Yes, without an account.