Products being used within their end-product application can suffer systematic or random failures. Functional safety standards are designed to help influence the reduction of potential risks of ...

Effective occupational health and safety management requires a structured approach to hazard identification and risk assessment, which is best achieved by a management system. The implementation of an ...

With the growth of automation and increase of workers engaging with machines, I felt there would be some benefit to sharing an example of the safety risk assessments that we do in order to reduce or ...

"Wallace, if we lock out this machine every time we have a pill jam, we will never make any product!" This was the testy response I received from a production manager while performing a lockout audit ...

This Safety Guideline lists the key measures for those wishing to complete a safety risk assessment. Those needing more information on risk assessment can read our Safety Guidance (only accessible on ...

The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) wants those handling large sheets of glass to write good risk assessments after a person was struck and injured by several sheets of glass falling from a crate held ...

Research by Community Care has shown that many English councils do not have risk assessments designed specifically for social care staff. Paul Durkin offers advice The duty to carry out health and ...

A structured way of thinking about how an activity or situation that is going to happen at some point in the future might cause harm to people, to property or to the environment, and thereby helping ...