Health & Safety Training

Risk Assessment Training Course

In-company training that equips your team to carry out suitable and sufficient risk assessments. Run as a one-day workshop, or a two-day course that adds a practical day assessing real tasks on site.

1 day or 2 days In-company UK-wide Certificate of attendance Managers, supervisors, H&S staff
Key facts at a glance
1 or 2 days
Two formatsworkshop, or workshop plus practical
5 steps
The methodthe recognised approach to risk assessment
Your own RAs
Worked throughusing your forms and tasks
Dynamic RA
Includedassessing risk on the spot
Two ways to run it

Choose the format that fits your team

Both formats teach the same risk assessment method and work through your own risk assessments. The two-day course adds a full practical day, carrying out real assessments out in the workplace for extra competency.

1 day

Risk Assessment Workshop

1 day classroom workshop
  • The law, the principles and the five steps of risk assessment
  • Hazard identification and scoring risk
  • Choosing and reviewing control measures, and record keeping
  • Working through your own risk assessments in the classroom
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The course
Quick answer

What is risk assessment training?

Risk assessment training equips your team to carry out suitable and sufficient risk assessments: finding the hazards, judging the risk, choosing controls and recording the findings. KeyOstas runs it as a one-day workshop, or a two-day course that adds a practical day assessing real tasks on site.

Teaches the recognised five-step risk assessment method
Covers hazard identification, scoring risk and choosing controls
Works through your own risk assessments, and includes dynamic risk assessment
Certificate of attendance for every delegate
Risk assessment is the foundation of managing health and safety. The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require every employer to carry out a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks their work creates. This course builds the people who do that. It covers the law and the principles, the recognised five steps, identifying hazards, judging the magnitude of risk, choosing and reviewing controls, and keeping records. It also covers dynamic risk assessment, judging risk on the spot as a situation changes. The two-day course adds a practical day carrying out real assessments in the workplace.
MHSWR 1999
requires a suitable and sufficient assessment
5 steps
the recognised method
1 or 2 days
workshop, or workshop plus practical
Is it right for you

Is this course right for your team?

It is for the people who carry out, review or sign off risk assessments.

Right for you if…

You need staff who can carry out workplace risk assessments
You are a manager, supervisor or health & safety team member
You want assessments done in-house, on your own tasks and forms
You want the people doing it to understand the method, not just a template
You want extra hands-on competency through a practical day (two-day course)

A different course fits better if…

You need a general grounding in health and safety for all staff: see Health & Safety Awareness
You need a permit to work course for high-risk work: see Permit to Work Training
You want a regulated, accredited qualification: this is a certificate of attendance
After the course

What you will be able to do

By the end of the course, every delegate will be able to do the following.

Understand risk assessment

Know the law and the role

Outline the legal requirements for, and the role of, risk assessment.

Know the principles

Explain the philosophy and principles of risk assessment and the main legal duties.

Identify the factors

Identify the factors involved in assessing risk.

Formulate a strategy

Formulate a risk assessment strategy for their workplace.

Carry it out

Make a suitable assessment

Make suitable and sufficient risk assessments using the five steps.

Score the risk

Use qualitative methods and simple probability and severity scales.

Choose controls

Recommend control measures and review how well they work.

Record and assess on the spot

Keep proper records, and carry out a dynamic risk assessment as a situation changes.

Course content

What the course covers

The one-day workshop covers the method; the two-day course adds a practical day on site.

01

The foundations

  • An overview of UK legislation
  • The philosophy and principles of risk assessment
  • A review of the main legal duties, and the importance of standards
02

Carrying out an assessment

  • The five simple stages of assessment
  • Task analysis and hazard identification
  • Assessing the magnitude of risk and the effectiveness of controls
  • Using simple probability and severity scales
03

Controlling & recording risk

  • The options for controlling risk
  • Reviewing strategy and management control
  • Record keeping, and risk assessment exercises
  • Dynamic risk assessment: judging risk on the spot
04

Practical day (two-day course)

  • Carrying out team risk assessments on site, using your own forms and procedures
  • Critiquing the assessments back in the classroom
  • Plans for the future, and an end assessment
Assessment

How the course is assessed and certificated

Practical and applied, worked through real risk assessments.

Format

Instructor-led, in-company

A KeyOstas tutor delivers the course at your premises, as a one-day or two-day course.

Assessment

Exercises and a practical

Delegates work through risk assessment exercises; the two-day course adds an on-site practical and an end assessment.

Certificate

Certificate of attendance

Every delegate receives a KeyOstas certificate of attendance on completion.

Delivered in-company, the course works through your own risk assessments, forms and procedures, so delegates practise on the assessments they will really carry out.
Why KeyOstas

Why train with KeyOstas

Four decades of practical, in-company health & safety training.

01

Delivered at your site

We come to you, anywhere in the UK, and train your team around your working pattern.

02

Uses your own assessments

The course works through your own risk assessments, forms and tasks.

03

One day or two

Choose the workshop, or add a practical day for extra hands-on competency.

04

Specialists since 1984

Four decades of training UK workforces with practical instruction, not generic e-learning.

FAQ

Risk assessment training: frequently asked questions

Is risk assessment a legal requirement?
Yes. The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require every employer to carry out a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks created by their work, and to record the significant findings where five or more people are employed.
What is the difference between the one-day and two-day course?
The one-day workshop teaches the method and works through your own risk assessments in the classroom. The two-day course adds a full practical day carrying out real assessments out in the workplace, with a critique and an end assessment, for extra competency.
Who should attend?
Managers, supervisors and health & safety staff, and anyone who carries out, reviews or signs off risk assessments.
What are the five steps of risk assessment?
The recognised approach: identify the hazards, decide who might be harmed and how, evaluate the risk and decide on controls, record the significant findings, and review the assessment. The course works through all five.
Does the course cover dynamic risk assessment?
Yes. Dynamic risk assessment, judging risk on the spot as a situation changes, is covered as part of the course rather than as a separate session.
What does 'suitable and sufficient' mean?
It is the legal standard a risk assessment must meet: it should be proportionate to the risk, identify the significant hazards, and be appropriate to the work. The course explains how to meet it.
Will the course use our own forms?
Yes. Delivered in-company, the course works through your own risk assessments, forms and procedures.
Is this an accredited qualification?
It is a KeyOstas course with a certificate of attendance: practical training rather than a regulated qualification.

Train your team to assess risk

Tell us whether you need the one-day workshop or the two-day course with the practical day, and how many people you would like to train, and we will put together a quote.

Last reviewed: May 2026. Checked against current UK health & safety legislation and HSE guidance.