Why do you need a COVID-19 risk assessment?

As an employer, you must protect people from harm. This includes taking reasonable steps to protect your workers and others from coronavirus. This is called a COVID-19 risk assessment and it will help you manage risk and protect people.

You must:

• identify what work activity or situations might cause transmission of the virus;
• think about who could be at risk;
• decide how likely it is that someone could be exposed;
• act to remove the activity or situation, or if this is not possible, control the risk.

The Public Health England report Disparities in the risk and outcomes of COVID-19 shows that some groups of people may be at more risk of being infected and/or an adverse outcome if infected. You should consider this in your risk assessment.

We can help to keep you on track with following recognised control measures whilst keeping you well-informed of HSE, government and industry updates.