Task & area risk assessments
Suitable and sufficient assessments to MHSWR Reg 3 — covering routine tasks, non-routine work and the areas people move through, with controls that follow the hierarchy.
Service
Risk assessments that are actually useful.
Under Regulation 3 of the Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999, every employer must make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks. We turn that legal duty into clear, proportionate documents your team will read, follow and trust — not a binder that gathers dust.
What's included
Cover for the risks that matter.
From a single COSHH assessment to a full programme of task and area risk assessments, we focus on the hazards that genuinely affect your people — sized to your work, never gold-plated.
COSHH assessments
Assessment of hazardous substances under COSHH 2002 — exposure routes, safety data sheets, control measures and health surveillance triggers, all in plain English.
Manual handling & DSE
Manual handling assessments to the 1992 Regulations and display screen equipment assessments — practical fixes for the back, neck and wrist risks people actually live with.
Working-at-height controls
Work at Height Regulations 2005 in practice — avoid, prevent, mitigate. Access plans, edge protection, rescue arrangements and LOLER-aware lifting where relevant.
RAMS & method statements
Risk assessments and method statements that read like instructions, not legalese — safe systems of work your operatives and clients can both sign off with confidence.
A living risk register
A maintained register aligned to ISO 45001 — version-controlled, reviewed on change and after incidents, so your records stay current instead of frozen at the last audit.
Reg 3MHSWR 1999
Our approach
Find the hazard, then control it properly.
Good risk management starts with honest hazard identification — walking the job, talking to the people who do it, and being clear about what could actually cause harm. From there we apply the hierarchy of control in the right order: eliminate the hazard if we can, then substitute, engineer it out, add safe systems of work, and only then rely on PPE as the last line of defence.
It's a principle that runs right through UK law — from the general duties of the Health & Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, through PUWER 1998 for work equipment, to CDM 2015 on construction projects. Dominic Gibbons CMIOSH keeps every assessment proportionate to the real risk, so you meet the standard without paying for control measures you'll never need. And because records align to ISO 45001, your assessments slot neatly into the wider management system rather than sitting in a folder of their own.
A risk assessment is only worth the paper it's printed on if someone reads it and changes what they do. Our job is to make that the easy choice.Dominic Gibbons CMIOSH · Safepippin Compliance
How it works
From hazard to habit.
Three straightforward stages take you from "we should probably look at this" to controls your team uses without thinking — and a register that stays alive between visits.
01Step 01
Understand
We walk your sites, review your activities and identify the real hazards — speaking to the people doing the work, not just reading the job description.
02Step 02
Plan
Suitable and sufficient assessments to MHSWR Reg 3, with controls set by the hierarchy and clear RAMS where the work demands a safe system in writing.
03Step 03
Embed
We brief your team, fold the records into your ISO 45001 system, and keep the register live — reviewed on change, after incidents and when RIDDOR 2013 applies.
MHSWR 1999
COSHH 2002
Work at Height 2005
PUWER 1998
CDM 2015
ISO 45001
HSG53
LOLER 1998
Why it matters
Proportionate, defensible, maintained.
Good risk management is the backbone of compliance — and the difference between a tidy audit and an awkward conversation with an inspector.
Legally sound
Assessments that stand up to scrutiny under HSWA 1974 and MHSWR 1999 — and to the enforcing authority if they ever come knocking.
Right-sized
Proportionate to your real risk. No gold-plating, no copy-paste templates — just the controls your work genuinely needs, and no more.
System-ready
Records aligned to ISO 45001 so your assessments, RAMS and register feed straight into a management system that an auditor will recognise.
Genuinely supported
A Chartered professional on the end of the phone when something changes — new equipment, new site, new substance — so the register never drifts.
Ready when you are
Let's get your risks under control.
Whether you need a single COSHH assessment or a full living register maintained year-round, we'll size it to your work and keep it plain English. No obligation, no jargon.