Risk Assessment Software

Risk Assessments are at the core of health and safety management. Businesses are legally obliged to carry out risk assessments in their workplace regardless of their size. It ensures there is a record 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.

RAMS stands for Risk Assessment and Method Statements which 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.

If you are currently using a paper-based system, or even excel, it’s probably difficult to track who has received the necessary level of risk training.

You have to trust that all documents are regularly updated which is difficult in time-sensitive settings, or when you’re dealing with a lot of people. In addition to this, paper and excel make it hard to control what information is being put into a risk assessment (especially across multiple locations).

Can you show quality control? Should an event take place, can you show employees have been brought through a risk assessment to the appropriate standard?

Solution: A Risk Training Matrix

The Risk Module lets you quickly see who has received what training, when it took place and if it needs to be refreshed.

- Training matrix lets you schedule employees in for training on live risk assessments.
- Immediately see whether risk training has been completed by an employee
- The approval process prior to assessments being set live gives you quality control of information.

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 is 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.

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 organisation's 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 ensures a safe workplace, but they can save on 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, filing cabinets
- Excel - Spreadsheets across the business, shared folders
- Control measure/action tracking - Emails & phone calls

This rolls into 3 distinctive pains:

- Uncontrolled data
- Lack of engagement
- 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.