A documented method, not an opinion.
Every Health Risk Assessment follows the same five-step chain, producing a per-work-area hazard table with rated risk, and a defensible record of how each rating was reached.
The five-step chain
Hazard identification
Every hazard in every work area: physical, chemical, ergonomic and environmental.
Risk assessment
Each one rated on a 5×5 likelihood and consequence matrix.
Health risk assessment
What the exposure actually means for the people doing that job.
Occupational hygiene
Measured against the governing standard, by calibrated instrument.
Legal compliance
Every finding mapped to the statute that triggers it, with the action required.
The four hazard classes
Every work area is reviewed against all four, because a workforce is rarely exposed to only one.
Physical stressors
Noise, inadequate illumination, radiation sources, poor ventilation and air quality.
Chemical stressors
Hazardous chemical substances in the workplace: dusts, vapours and fumes.
Ergonomic stressors
Poor workstation and task design, and the injuries that follow from it.
Environmental & facilities
Environmental pollution or exposure, and damaged or unsanitary facilities.
What you receive
All identified hazards are listed per work area or task in table format, with a rating allocated to the risk in terms of both the potential health effect and the anticipated or measured level of exposure.
Recommendations and actions follow: the medical surveillance required, additional or amended control measures, and personal protective equipment. The assessment forms part of the occupational hygiene and health plan, together with a monitoring and review schedule.
The fifth stated objective of every risk assessment we run is, in the words of the statute, a recommendation on the medical surveillance required. That is what connects the hazard on the floor to the tests in the medical.
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