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Introduction
Leeds City Council is responsible for enforcing UK health and safety legislation
for most non-industrial commercial premises within Leeds. The health and safety
inspection team, part of the council's environmental health service, is committed
to working with businesses to achieve safe and healthy working environments for
everyone working in and visiting business premises in Leeds.
This online tutorial combines simple and practical advice with learning exercises
to take you through a comprehensive step by step guide to health and safety risk
assessment. You'll cover the basic principles behind risk assessment, find clear
explanations of what the law requires and using everday examples, see how you can
achieve real health and safety improvements within your business.
Tasks, navigation and symbols
The navigation arrows at the bottom of each page will guide you through the tutorial.
The toolbar at the top gives you quick access to the risk assessment toolkit and
practical exercise which you may find helpful to refer to as you go along. The
quick links on the left and more detailed sitemap on the top toolbar allow you to
jump and refer back to pages without following the tutorial sequence.
Throughout the package, important legislative requirements and key concepts appear
with this key symbol next to them. You may wish to take note of these to help you
remember them when it comes to doing your own risk assessment.
Tasks to help you practice your risk assessment skills also appear throughout the
training package. They're all designed to take no more than five minutes to
complete. Try to avoid the temptation to skip straight to the answers, as they're
an important way of reinforcing what you're learning.
Finally, where government approved codes of practice are given, they will be
marked with this abbreviation: *ACOP. These are recommended, though not
compulsory, codes of good practice which you may find helpful in achieving the
mandatory requirements of the law where risk assessment is concerned.
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