| Copyright (c) 2010 Ianson Internet Marketing | | | | and safety measures implemented. Traffic hazards |
| No one can eliminate every possible risk to humans | | | | should be considered and means to protect your |
| and that includes businesses, But if you have more | | | | workers while exposed to traffic. Dangers from |
| than five people working for you, the law in most | | | | explosives or fire code violations like smoking near |
| countries, both abroad and in the United States, | | | | explosive materials should be recorded. Noise levels |
| requires that you make a risk assessment and have | | | | that might cause hearing loss and means to protect |
| it written out where employees and visitors to your | | | | your employees should be a part of your risk |
| company can read it if they choose. | | | | assessment. |
| You are only required by law to make a risk | | | | Once your risk assessor has made his findings, you |
| assessment and to try to alert your workers to | | | | will need to consider the risk as applied to the |
| those risks and to protect them as much as you | | | | worker who will be facing that risk and how he might |
| possibly can. Once your workers have been informed | | | | be hurt by his actions or by the nature of the work |
| of the risks in their workplace, you have met the | | | | task itself. Make a list of preventative measures that |
| requirements of the law Of course, in protecting your | | | | are already in place and consider implementing |
| workers, you must also provide them with protective | | | | additional preventative measures if those already in |
| devices in line with the risk and insist that they make | | | | place are considered inadequate due to previous |
| use of those protective devices. | | | | experience. |
| To make a risk assessment, someone in your | | | | Part of your risk assessment should be a thorough |
| company should make an evaluation of the following: | | | | examination of your equipment to protect your |
| Document hazards on the job that might lead a | | | | workers while working in situations that you have |
| person to fall or slide and thus hurt themselves. | | | | determined to be risky. A detailed report of that |
| Working with dangerous substances is a risk, inform | | | | equipment and when it was examined should also be |
| your workers of those risks and take measures to | | | | a part of your risk assessment. |
| exposed those risks. Hazards of working on | | | | There are several companies that specialise in this |
| scaffolding, on ladders, or anywhere where the | | | | important factor. They can all be found on the |
| worker is high off the ground should be written out | | | | internet. |