Hazards and risk assessment.
Good morning. I hope you are well and ready to focus on health and safety. Today, we will talk about risk assessment, which helps us to know what to do to stop accidents from happening. Risk assessment helps us to eliminate hazards and reduce risks. Let me clarify a few terms here. A hazard is something that can cause harm, for exampl a chemical or using a ladder. A risk is the chance a person is harmed or injured by the hazard. Generally, we do a risk assessment by going through the following steps.