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Hazard identification and risk assessment training for the people who have to do it — safety officers, SHE reps, supervisors and managers. Delegates leave able to walk their own workplace, identify what can hurt someone, rate it honestly and write it up in a form that stands up to scrutiny.
At a glance
The course
Risk assessment training teaches a structured way to answer one question: what on this site can hurt somebody, and how badly? Delegates learn to separate a hazard from a risk, to look systematically rather than at whatever is obvious, and to record the result so somebody else can follow it.
The method is the course. Delegates work through identifying hazards by area, task and activity; rating each one for likelihood and consequence; and ranking what comes first. They learn why the rating matters — it is what defends the decision about where the budget goes.
The last part is the controls. Delegates work down the hierarchy — eliminate, substitute, engineer, administrate, and only then protective equipment — and learn why reaching straight for PPE is the most common and least effective answer.
Who it is for
Risk assessment is a duty that lands on named people. This course is for those people, and for the ones who will be asked to sign the assessment.
The people who carry the health and safety function and are expected to produce and maintain the site risk assessments.
The people who know the work best. A risk assessment written without them usually misses what actually happens on the floor.
Committee members who review assessments and need to know what a good one looks like before they approve it.
Teams who must produce a risk assessment before they are allowed on a client's site, and need it to survive the client's review.
The method
The course follows the sequence delegates will use afterwards, in the order they will use it.
| Step | What happens | What it produces |
|---|---|---|
| Identify the hazards | Walk the site by area, task and activity, and list everything with the potential to cause harm | A hazard list that covers the work as it is actually done |
| Rate the risk | Score each hazard for how likely it is and how bad the consequence would be | A ranked list, so the serious items are dealt with before the easy ones |
| Control and review | Apply the hierarchy of controls, assign owners and dates, then re-rate what is left | A written risk assessment with residual risk, owners and a review date |
How it works
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Give us the number of delegates and the kind of operation — plant, warehouse, office, construction. The examples come from your world.
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We run the course at your premises anywhere in South Africa. On-site works far better, because delegates assess the real workplace.
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Delegates carry out an actual assessment during the course, on your site, rather than filling in a worked example from a manual.
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Delegates are assessed on the work they produce. Those who meet the standard receive a certificate for their file.
Need your safety team trained in risk assessment? Tell us how many.
Built on your hazards. Delegates assess your workplace during the course, so you finish the day with work you can use.
Taught by people who see the outcome. Ralmed runs an ambulance service and treats injuries on duty. Our trainers have seen what an unassessed hazard does.
Practical, not theoretical. The course produces a completed assessment, not a certificate of attendance.
Anywhere in South Africa. We bring the course to your site, wherever it is.
Cost
Risk assessment training is quoted per group. The cost moves with the things below, and the quote comes in writing before anything is booked.
These are the things that set the price:
For a quote, tell us how many people need the course, what kind of site it is and where you are. Call 0861 725 633 or send a WhatsApp.
Your options
Employers usually face this choice once. Both are legitimate; they solve different problems.
| Option | What it gives you | Suits | Things to weigh up |
|---|---|---|---|
| Train your own team | People who can assess, re-assess and keep the document alive | Sites where work and hazards change regularly | Takes the team off the floor for the course |
| Bring in a consultant | A completed assessment produced by an outsider | A one-off need, or a site with no internal safety capacity | The document ages, and nobody in-house can update it |
| Use a generic template | A form filled in from someone else's workplace | Very little, honestly | It describes hazards you may not have and misses the ones you do |
Get started
Send the number of delegates, the kind of site and where you are, and we will come back with a date and a written quote.
Training room
89 Impala Road, Kelvin View, Sandton
Or we come to your premises.
Anywhere in South Africa, at the client's own premises. For risk assessment we strongly prefer on site, because the practical work is an assessment of your actual workplace.
See all our accredited medical training, or pair this with incident investigation training.
Questions
A practical course teaching hazard identification and risk assessment — often called HIRA. Delegates learn to identify hazards by area and task, rate each one for likelihood and consequence, apply the hierarchy of controls, and record the result as a written risk assessment with owners and a review date.
A hazard is the thing with the potential to cause harm — the unguarded blade, the spill, the forklift route. The risk is the combination of how likely it is to happen and how bad it would be. Confusing the two is the most common fault in a weak assessment.
The Occupational Health and Safety Act places a general duty on an employer to provide and maintain a working environment that is safe and without risk to health, and several regulations require hazards to be identified and controlled. A documented risk assessment is how an employer shows it has done that.
The order in which controls should be considered: eliminate the hazard, substitute something safer, engineer a control, then administrative measures such as procedures and training, and personal protective equipment last. PPE is the weakest control, and the one most often reached for first.
At a set interval, and whenever something changes — new equipment, a new process, a new layout, or after an incident. An assessment that has not moved in years usually describes a workplace that no longer exists.
Yes, and we recommend it. The practical work on this course is an assessment of a real workplace, and it is far more valuable when that workplace is yours.
Safety officers, SHE representatives, supervisors, line managers and health and safety committee members — anybody who produces, reviews or signs a risk assessment.
Yes. Delegates carry out an assessment during the course on your site, so you finish with work you can use rather than a completed worksheet from a manual.
Yes. Delegates who meet the standard receive a certificate for their training file and the site's health and safety records.
Yes, and the two fit together well. Risk assessment is the work done before something happens; incident investigation is the work done after. The same people usually carry both duties.
Related training
Risk assessment sits alongside incident investigation training and our occupational health and safety course. Sites that assess their risks properly often add on-site occupational health as well.
Tell us how many people need the course, what kind of site it is and where you are, and we will send a date and a written quote.
