Risk assessment software for UK businesses
Build suitable and sufficient risk assessments, record the significant findings, give every one an owner and a review date, and keep the whole set audit-ready — across general, COSHH, fire and construction work, in one place.
The legal duty behind every risk assessment
Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, every employer must make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to employees and to others affected by the work, and act on what it finds. An employer with five or more employees must record the significant findings. The wider duty to ensure health, safety and welfare sits in the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. Complys is where those assessments are built, recorded and kept current.
Legal duty — Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, reg 3 · Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 · HSE guidance, "Managing risks and risk assessment at work"
The steps, tracked from hazard to review
Identify the hazards
Capture what could cause harm — the substances, tasks, equipment and situations in your work — against each assessment.
Decide who could be harmed
Record who is at risk and how — employees, contractors, visitors, the public — so nothing is overlooked.
Evaluate and control
Set the control measures that reduce the risk so far as is reasonably practicable, and assign an owner to each action.
Record the significant findings
Keep the assessment on file with sign-off, ready to show an auditor, a client or the HSE — the recorded evidence the Regulations expect.
Review on a schedule
Every assessment carries a review date and reminder, and previous versions are kept, so reviews happen and the history is intact.
Read-and-acknowledge
Share assessments with the team and track who has read the current version — proof it reached the people doing the work.
Process reflects HSE guidance, "Managing risks and risk assessment at work"
One home for every kind of assessment
Different work needs different assessments, and Complys keeps them together. General workplace risk assessments live here. For construction and trades, the RAMS builder pairs a risk assessment with a method statement. For hazardous substances, use COSHH assessments. For premises fire risk, see fire risk assessment software. And for work at height, the work at height approach builds on the same assessment method. For display screen work, see DSE assessment software; for lifting and carrying, manual handling risk assessment. Whichever you need, the significant findings, owners, review dates and audit trail work the same way.
Risk assessment software — FAQs
Is a risk assessment a legal requirement?
Yes. Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, every employer must make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to employees and to anyone else affected by the work. An employer with five or more employees must record the significant findings. The underlying duty to ensure health and safety comes from the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
What is the difference between a risk assessment and RAMS?
A risk assessment identifies hazards and the controls that reduce the risk. RAMS (a risk assessment and method statement) pairs that risk assessment with a step-by-step method statement and is the format construction and trades usually work to. On Complys, general risk assessments live here; construction-style RAMS are produced in the RAMS builder, COSHH assessments in the COSHH tool, and fire risk assessments in the fire module.
How often should a risk assessment be reviewed?
There is no fixed interval in law — you must review an assessment when it may no longer be valid, for example after an incident, a change to the work, new equipment or new people. Complys gives every assessment a review date and reminder so reviews are not missed, and keeps previous versions for the audit trail.
Does Complys write the risk assessment for me?
Complys gives you a structured way to build, store and manage risk assessments, and the RAMS builder can draft construction risk assessments and method statements for you to check and adapt. The judgement about whether an assessment is suitable and sufficient for your work remains yours or your competent person's — software organises and evidences it, it does not replace professional judgement.
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