Updating author: Richard Bretton

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Summary
Future developments
Practical example
Action point checklist
Key references
Questions and answers
Health risk management
Hazard identification and risk assessment
Principles of prevention
Arrangements
Competent persons

Summary

8.398

• Health risk management is about identifying and controlling health risks before they can cause problems. (See 8.400 Health risk management)
• Hazard identification and risk assessment underpin the Health and Safety Executive's approach to occupational health risks. (See 8.401 Hazard identification and risk assessment)
• When deciding which control measures to take in order to eliminate or reduce identified risks, employers must apply the principles of prevention in the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999. (See 8.402 Principles of prevention)
• Employers must make and give effect to such arrangements as are appropriate for the effective planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review of the preventive and protective control measures required to manage health and safety risks to the required legal standards. (See 8.403 Arrangements)
• Employers must appoint one or more competent persons to assist in undertaking the measures that they must take to comply with the main obligations of health, safety and fire law. (See 8.404 Competent persons)

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Future developments

8.399 There are no future developments.

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Health risk management

8.400 Health risk management is about identifying and controlling health risks before they can cause problems.