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Risk Assessments
A suitable and sufficient look at what can harm people, who might be harmed, and what you will do about it.
A risk assessment is not a form for its own sake. It is the legal method for spotting hazards in the work, deciding how likely and how serious the harm is, and putting controls in place. It must be suitable and sufficient for the work you actually do. Insignificant everyday risks can usually be ignored. Significant risks cannot. If you employ five or more people you must record the significant findings. Leemarda Safety writes the assessments, keeps them current when the work or the law changes, and hosts them so you and your staff can open and print them when needed.
Ask Leemarda to do this for youWhat the law requires
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, regulation 3: employers (and the self-employed, where the law applies) must make a suitable and sufficient assessment of risks to employees and others who may be affected.
- If you employ five or more people, the significant findings must be recorded.
- You must review the assessment when it may no longer be valid, and when there is a significant change in the work.
Official guidance
- HSE’s current advice is: identify hazards, assess the risk, control the risk, record the findings, review the controls. You are not expected to eliminate every risk, but you must do what is reasonably practicable.
Where is this written down in legislation
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, reg. 3
- HSE: Managing risks and risk assessment at work
Checked against official sources on 2 November 2026. This is general information for Great Britain, not legal advice for a named site. Leemarda Safety will advise you.
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