Risk Assessment

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Setup

1. An Administrator must enable the Risk Assessment Module in the Administration section of the system.

2. An Administrator should then assign the role of Risk Assessment Manager to one or more users of the system.

3. An Administrator or Risk Assessment Manager should assign the role of Risk Assessment Approver to at least one other member of staff. Doing so means that they can approve Risk Assessments.

4. Risk Assessment Managers can create new Risk Areas. These can be helpful for grouping Risk Assessments into themes e.g. “Science” or “Trips”.

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Manage areas and approvers

The Administration page provides links to manage Risk Areas and Risk Assessment Approvers.

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Areas

Areas organise risk assessments into logical groups. The default General area cannot be removed while it is the only area available. An area cannot be deleted while risk assessments are assigned to it. Use the row menu to edit or delete an area, and the reorder control to change the order in which areas appear.

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Approvers

Add staff who can approve risk assessments. An approver explicitly assigned this role can later be removed. Users who already have approval permission through another role, such as Administrator or Risk Assessment Manager, cannot have that inherited permission removed here.

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Before publishing

Review the confidentiality of each assessment carefully. All staff can normally view the complete list, so do not include personal or otherwise sensitive information unless the assessment is marked confidential. Assign an owner and approver, then complete and approve the assessment before asking staff to confirm that they have read it.