Risk Assessment Software

Risk Assessments are at the core of health and safety management. Businesses are legally obliged to carry out risks assessments in their workplace regardless of their size. This guarantees a written record of a risk assessments is kept at all times. Several people are easily discouraged by the necessity of risk assessments and find them quite unwieldy and difficult to do.

In a nutshell, risk assessments are looking closely at what activities or aspects of your structure could potentially cause harm to your visitors or workforce. From a risk assessment, control measures can be established to avoid potential incidents and lower risk.

Identifying potential risks and establishing risk reduction plans are crucial tasks in health and safety management. Risk assessment software was developed to ensure full control of the risk assessment lifecycle. The software enables your workforce to create, share and manage risk assessment tasks, data and reports.

It can be really helpful in automatically sharing risk assessment tasks and reports with applicable employees and management to give them all the information they need at the touch of a button. Nowadays, the latest systems are completely user configurable and vendors ensure that the system is set up to fit with your process and workflow. This can help with any fear of starting again with a new development project.
 

Streamlining the risk assessment process and automating your action plans reduces your staff time spent on low value activities and room for potential human error. You can adapt your risk rating calculation methods to your needs, create a range of templates and assessments to share with your workforce. Understanding your organisations risk assessment statistics and KPI’s gives you the power to identify potential risk hotspots, guarantee control measures are implemented and ensure a safe working environment for your employees.

Basically, risk assessments are in place to alleviate or lower the possibility of harming your workforce and visitors of your workplace so at its core it is essential. The best way to prevent an incident is to identify the steps that cause the incident and take actions to prevent those steps from taking place.

Our Risk Assessments Software not only ensure a safe workplace, but they can save on large amount of expenses that could result from a compensation claim or the resulting insurance premiums. With the Health and Safety Executive reporting 147 work-related victims in the UK alone in 208/19, the need of safety in the workplace is more crucial than ever. Safety guidelines are getting more and more strict in tackling breaches of health and safety legislation.

The common risk assessment management type are :

• Manual processes- Paper records, filling cabinets 
• Excel- Spreadsheets across the business, shared folders 
• Control measure/action tracking- Emails & phone calls 

This rolls into 3 distinctive pains:

1. Uncontrolled data
2. Lack of engagement 
3. Prove duty of care

You can manage your Return to Work Risk Assessments through the Engage EHS Risk Assessments Module.

The RA templates are fully configurable, meaning they can be tailored to your unique industry/ business for your RTW scenario. The risk assessments are then stored in one centrally accessible location, making them available to everyone in your organisation.

You can also input control measures specifically pertaining to RTW.

The risk training matrix lets you quickly see if your RTW risk assessment training has been completed, so you can respond quickly.
 

CoSHH RA Management software is a tool that monitors and manages the risks associated with hazardous chemicals.

The Engage EHS CoSHH & Chemical Module lets you create fully-configurable task or substance based CoSHH risk assessments. These assessments have both R Phrase and GHS Classifications built in and can be shared easily throughout your organisation.
 

Chemical Risk Assessment Management software is a tool that monitors and manages the risks associated with hazardous chemicals.

The Engage EHS CoSHH & Chemical Module lets you create fully-configurable task or substance based risk assessments. These assessments have both R Phrase and GHS Classifications built in and can be shared easily throughout your organisation.

 

According to the HSE UK, under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, the minimum you must do to perform a risk assessment is:
• Identify what could cause injury or illness in your business (hazards)
• Decide how likely it is that someone could be harmed and how seriously (the risk)
• Take action to eliminate the hazard, or if this isn’t possible, control the risk
 

Safety teams are commonly using health and safety software in order to track employees that are capable of performing risk assessments. Engage EHS’s training matrix provides instant oversight of who is complaint or not. The training matrix also lets you schedule employees in for training on live risk assessments and see whether the risk training was completed.

For most countries across the globe, organisations that want to operate, need to perform a COVID-19 risk assessment. The general approach to managing risk assessments has not changed due to COVID-19. It commonplace for organisations to utilise risk assessment management software tools in order centralise and standardise their risk assessments across their organisation.

RAMS management software relates to the software tools that organisations use to manage risk assessments and method statements. Engage EHS’s risk assessment module enables safety teams to centralise and standardise their risk assessments and method statements across their organisation.

Organisations are commonly using safety software in order to manage hazardous substances and maintain chemical compliance to COSHH requirements. Engage EHS’s COSHH module works with our risk assessment module in order to manage all your chemical information in a single location, accessible to all your employees. Our software also allows the user to create fully-configurable task or substance based COSHH risk assessments.