Manufacturing Risk Assessment Overhaul.
Complete overhaul of company risk assessments.
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Our client, a UK engineering and fabrication firm with 90 employees across two sites, needed to overhaul a sprawling set of legacy risk assessments that were duplicated, inconsistent, and out of date. Over eight weeks, Safety Canvas Consulting rationalised 120+ documents into a streamlined, role-based and task-based register. We introduced a clear methodology aligned to the HSE’s “suitable and sufficient” standard, embedded the hierarchy of controls, and built a simple digital review workflow. The result: a 35% reduction in high and medium risks, faster reviews, and raised supervisor confidence.
Approach
- Discovery & triage of legacy documents; common scoring matrix.
- Hazard workshops across welding, grinding, CNC, manual handling, FLT.
- Controls prioritised by elimination/substitution; SOPs linked to tasks.
- Digitised register with owners, due dates and dashboard.
Results
- 35% reduction in high/medium residual risks in 3 months.
- 100% critical assessments in date; reminders for the rest.