Is a risk assessment practical for staff who are in and out of the office all day? If you have lone workers in and out or travelling to various locations, it might seem impractical to do a risk assessment every time they leave. Even if you do a risk assessment what sort of scale is it measured on, and how long will it take to perform? It’s not going to happen if you have to spend hours performing a detailed risk assessment every time.
To combat this Walter Brennan developed a 90-second rapid risk assessment, its original use was for lone working nurses in the UK. WSG has adapted this rapid risk assessment for use across many industries. Our adapted rapid risk assessment is available for download at the bottom of this page. The rapid risk assessment works on a points system where you assign values for yes, no and unsure for each question. Once you answer the questions the total number of these answers provides you with a level of risk. 10 – 15 is low risk. 16 -23 is a medium level of risk. A high-risk situation is anything that scores above 24.