A Process Risk Assessment must be written for any new process or new piece of equipment.

Risk assessment template  forms can be found at: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/services/health-safety/forms/

These need to be sent to the Safety Officer for approval.

Please ensure the Laboratory Manager receives a copy of the signed approved assessment.

The completed assessments will be posted in this section.

It is your responsibility to ensure you complete these assessments and get them approved before work commences.

It is your responsibility to ensure you have read the risk assessments your work is involved with.

Message from Wolfson Safety Officer-  Risk Assessment Process

As you know, as part of various University H&S Policies we must undertake Risk Assessments. It is also good practice to do this. Risk Assessments help us to understand and consider Risk, to remove or reduce it, to manage the Risks to acceptable safe levels by using guards, interlocks PPE etc. They should be used to confirm standard lab and equipment operating processes, new facilities, new Research Rigs, Student projects, new work activities, order items (COSHH, Lasers) etc.

The University has a standard Risk Assessment Form (I have attached the latest one v2.19 for your information and use). The most up to date version is stored under the following link in the Schools Information Workspace (Link \\ws3.lboro.ac.uk\ws-schoolinfo\Health and Safety & Fire Assembly ).

Whatever your need for a Risk Assessment is, you are asked to complete this get it signed by your supervisor and send it to the School’s central Email Address: shared.ws.safety@lboro.ac.uk for School Review and approval (if compliant). Several School staff have access to this Shared email, and they will then review the assessment and either approve it or ask for more information. This can be an iterative process if there are not enough details for the Risks to be identified.

In doing your Risk Assessment you must include a Method Statement (use the tab for this purpose), only when you tell us the Method Statement of what you are doing can your supervisor and the Wolfson Assessment team sensibly consider your Risk Assessment for Approval.

You can do the Risk Assessment separately or as a Group if there are many potential risks or disciplines involved. Please do it in enough detail to address all reasonable risks.

Ensure equipment is used correctly and maintained in an efficient state and good working order and that Risk assessments are reviewed and updated regularly, when significant changes occur or following an incident.

Please also do allow enough time for your supervisor to sign this off and then for the Wolfson Assessment team to sensibly consider your Risk Assessment for Approval.

I hope this clarifies the process. If you do have any questions then please contact any of the Wolfson Risk Assessment Team (Bob Temple, David Green, Keven Smith)

Along with the above, the new style PORF issued 28/01/2019 should be used.  A number of product codes are identified and listed for special items, I have been reliably informed this will be going electronic soon but for the time being could you please use the attached form.