Tolley*s Risk Assessment Workbook Series: Offices

Written by a practitioner in the industry, this text offers practical advice on how to carry out effective risk assessment in the workplace. Risk assessment is known to be an ambiguous task and, by adopting a simple yet specific approach, the workbook enables the user to conduct risk assessments with clarity and confidence. It offers a thorough discussion of the subject matter and includes practical worked examples. It also acts as a guide, enabling in-house Health and Safety managers to carry out their own risk assessment instead of employing expensive external consultants. The book is part of the Tolley Risk Assessment Workbook Series, which also offers titles focusing on education, the leisure industry, the retail trade, manufacturing and health services.

Risk assessment is the key to successful management of health and safety at work. Risk assessments are carried out in order to quantify and evaluate the significance of workplace hazards so that appropriate control measures can be put in place.

Usually, a written record of the assessment is required, detailing the following information:
* The hazards and how much risk is associated.
* The risk with appropriate control measures.
* Deadlines to follow-up the risk assessment to ensure the risk is managed.

Failure to carry out risk assessments punishable by law is often due to lack of a suitable risk assessment system. Tolley s Risk Assessment Workbook Offices provides that system, both in the form of key background information on how to carry out a risk assessment understanding relevant legislation and regulations but most importantly by providing:
* Checklists highlighting key industry-specific hazards and control measures.
* Questionnaires highlighting key questions the risk assessor should ask when analysing the risk posed by the hazard.
* Action Plans to ensure the risk assessment is followed up and completed.

The Workbook offers a practical risk assessment system: it shows you how to comply with the law and gives you the foundations of a logical procedure that can be understood easily, put into placed quickly where necessary and adapted to your organisation s needs.

Tolley s Risk Assessment Workbooks is a series of practical Workbooks providing you with all the information you need to conduct risk assessments in industry-specific areas including: Manufacturing, Retail, Leisure, Education, Construction, and Utilities. A special Risk Assessment Workbook on Stress has also been developed in order to facilitate management of this issue which is of key concern to all organisations.