Risk assessments
Rate each hazard 1–5 for likelihood and consequence, before and with its controls, follow the hierarchy of control, and have it approved. Versions can't change.
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Applies to: Planning · Club admin, Club team member
A risk assessment is for one task, work area, event or activity, at one site or for your whole club. Anyone on your team can draft one; an club admin approves it (builders and businesses: a safety officer too). Builders' and businesses' project or site managers write them for their sites.
How to start one
- Step 1: Open Planning → Risk assessments. Under Start a risk assessment, choose Start from a template, or A blank risk assessment.
- Step 2: Give it a Name, choose Where, and add From (optional) and To (optional) dates if it's for an event or a trip. Choose Start.
- Step 3: Under What, where, when and who, describe it.
- Step 4: For each hazard: say Who could be hurt, rate the Likelihood and Consequence before controls, add controls most effective first (eliminate, substitute, isolate, engineering, then administrative and PPE), and rate it with them. Link a hazard From the hazard register (optional).
- Step 5: Choose an Owner, then Save and send for review.
Approval and versions
- The approver chooses Approve as version (the next number), or sends it back with what needs to change. Whoever sent it can't approve it, unless nobody else can (with a reason, shown as self-approved).
- Approved versions can't change, have their own PDF, and come up for review: you're reminded from 14 days before the review date, then weekly.
- The list shows each one's Highest risk and Status: Draft, In review, Approved or Archived.
The risk matrix
- Likelihood × consequence: 1–4 low, 5–9 medium, 10–14 high, 15–25 extreme.
- iComply flags a hazard rated higher with its controls than without.
The 5 × 5 matrix is a common one, not a standard, and the templates are starting points, not legal advice. Your own adviser decides what's right for you.