The risk assessment helps minimise the possibility of your business harming those who work in, or visit, your business. It also has the potential to protect you from the risk of fines or being sued by an employee or member of the public.

If you make any significant change to the way you work; the products, services or the environment in which your employees work, you should be conducting a further assessment.

Controlling dangers at work is no different from tackling any other task - recognising the problem, knowing enough about it, deciding what to do and putting the solution into practice.

If you are a small to medium business ensuring that you are compliant should not be that difficult but it can still prove to be another stretch on resources and a distraction from meeting your main objectives.

SMEO provide a complete Health and Safety audit service which will ensure that you meet all the regulations including the assessment of risks thereby allowing you to focus on your business, we can:

• carry out a complete audit on your premises and make recommendations that will enable your organisation maximise health and safety compliance
• decide what policies and procedures, (if any) are essential for your organisation
• help you write those policies
• check over your existing policies and ensure compliance
• carry out training for you and your personnel on what the act will mean to them
• incorporate feedback programs and initiatives to maintain a high profile for H&S at work
• prepare an induction training programme for future new starters
• keep you up to date on new legislation in advance of it coming into force