Health and safety risk assessment software
- Risk score before controls (likelihood x severity, out of 25)
- 16
- Residual risk score after controls
- 8
- Reduction from the controls, percent
- 50
Every figure on this page is computed from the inputs you enter, by the method stated below it. The only constants DailyLogDesk supplies are the published reporting clocks and assessment steps, each cited where it is used. The defaults are a worked example to replace with your own.
Health and safety risk assessment software for a small contractor has one job before any other: produce an assessment a competent person would sign, for the task in hand, in the time between winning the job and starting it. That means the hazards for this task, a likelihood and severity score before and after the controls, the controls written down, the people exposed, and a record that can be found when the inspector, the client or the insurer asks for it. Everything else, the workflow engine, the analytics, the integrations marketplace, is decoration on that.
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Score before and after the controls, on the same sheet
A risk score that only exists after the controls hides how much the controls are doing. Scoring likelihood against severity before the controls, then likelihood again after them, shows the reduction on the sheet, which is what the competent person signs and what the inspector reads. The risk assessment tool on this site does exactly that, out of 25.
Attach the assessment to the method statement
On a construction site the risk assessment and the method statement are one pack: the hazards and controls on one page, the sequence of work that applies them on the next. Keeping them as one record against the project is what stops the assessment being generic and the method being unread.
Record it against the project, and review it when the job changes
An assessment for the job as tendered is stale the day the scope changes. Filing it against the project with a review date, and re-scoring when the scaffold goes up or the excavation goes deeper, is the review step the HSE names and the one most sites skip.
Health and safety risk assessment software: common questions
Is there free health and safety risk assessment software?
The risk assessment tool on this site scores a task before and after controls, free and with no account, and you can print the sheet. DailyLogDesk Pro adds the record: the assessment saved against the project, the method statement filed with it, the review reminder and the export.
What does a risk assessment have to include?
The Health and Safety Executive's five steps: identify hazards, assess the risks, control the risks, record your findings and review the controls. The tool on this site walks those steps as figures, hazards counted, likelihood and severity scored, controls listed, exposure recorded, and Pro keeps the record and the review date.
Do I need RAMS for every job?
Most main contractors and clients will ask for a risk assessment and method statement before you start on their site, whatever the law says about the size of the task. The RAMS tool on this site sizes the pack and prices the briefing; Pro keeps one per project.
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Keeping what you make
The answers are free forever. Pro turns them into your site records: your logo and license on them, no watermark, every report filed against the project and the day, reminders to the people who owe a signature, and clean exports when the inspector or the client asks.
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The Health and Safety Executive's own method is five steps, identify hazards, assess the risks, control the risks, record your findings and review the controls, and a risk assessment tool that skips the recording step has done four-fifths of the job and kept none of it.
Risk assessment template (Risk score before controls (likelihood x severity, out of 25)): 16, DailyLogDesk, worked example.
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