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News > Health & Safety Executive Sensible Risk Assessments.
Health & Safety Executive Sensible Risk Assessments.
Health & Safety Executive have created a form of words which, in draft form below,which help to meet our needs.
PRINCIPLES OF SENSIBLE RISK MANAGEMENT
1. Sensible risk management IS about:
o Ensuring that workers and citizens are properly protected
o Providing overall benefit to society by balancing benefits and risks,
with a focus on controlling real risks - either those which arise most
often or those with the most serious consequences
o Enabling innovation and learning not stifling them
o Ensuring that those who create risks manage them responsibly and
understand that failure to manage serious risks responsibly is likely to
lead to robust action
o Enabling individuals to understand that as well as the right to
protection, they also have to exercise responsibility
2. Sensible risk management IS NOT about:
o Creating a totally risk free society
o Generating useless paperwork mountains
o Scaring people by exaggerating or publicising trivial risks
o Stopping important recreational and learning activities for
individuals where the risks are managed
We congratulate them on their brevity, their substance and their .pdf document/presentation below. In which they try to explained Sensible Risk Assessement! :