Health and Safety Regulations are made under the Health and Safety at Work Act, usually to regulate specific hazards, such as lead, asbestos, pressure equipment, hazardous substances, noise, etc.

A Workplace risk assessment is a logical analysis of the hazards present in your work and the safeguards adopted to control the risk, to make sure that no harm can arise.

Generally, risk assessments must be written down if you employ five or more people.

1. Any accident resulting in more than three days off work.

2. Any dangerous incident, whether it involves injury or not (collapse of scaffold, contact with overhead lines, failure of lifting gear, etc).