Write a risk assessment
- 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.
Write a risk assessment in the time between winning the job and starting it: walk the site with the person who will do the work, list the hazards you find, say who could be harmed and how, score likelihood and severity before the controls, write the controls you will use and score again after them, name the person for each, and sign and date it with a review date. The risk assessment template on this site turns those inputs into the assessment a competent person signs, free and without an account; DailyLogDesk Pro keeps it against the project with the method statement and the briefing.
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The walk comes first
The hazards on the page are the hazards on the site: the services, the edge, the enclosed space, the public, the lone worker, the weather. Walk it with the person doing the task and write what you both see. A library of hazards copied into the form is the assessment that names what the site does not have and misses what it does.
The scores, before and after, on the same row
Likelihood against severity before any control, then the control, then likelihood again with it in place. Two scores on the same row show what the control is doing; a single score hides it. The template on this site scores both out of 25 and prints the reduction.
The person, the date and the review
Each control has a name against it and a moment when it is checked; the footer has the assessor's signature, the date and the review date. Pro files the signed assessment against the project and raises the review when it falls due.
The briefing that makes it real
The assessment is briefed at the start of the task in the crew's own words and the sign-on sheet is the record. An assessment nobody has heard protects nobody; the toolbox talk and the form are filed together because an investigator asks for both.
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Write a risk assessment: common questions
How long does it take to write a risk assessment?
The walk takes as long as the site; the writing takes minutes with the template, because the inputs are the hazards you found and the controls you will use.
Do I need a qualification to write one?
You need to be competent for the task and the site: to know the hazards and the controls. A certificate is not the test; knowing the work is.
Is the template free?
Yes. The risk assessment template on this site prints a scored, signed assessment with no account. Pro adds the record against the project and the review reminder.