Home working health and safety risk assessment

If you use your home as your business workplace, you must carry out a health and safety risk assessment to identify any possible hazards to yourself, workers, visitors and other members of your household.

Possible hazards include:

  • using work equipment at home, including electrical appliances
  • your workstation set-up
  • handling loads
  • hazardous substances and materials
  • psychological hazards, such as stress or loneliness
  • fire, slips, trips and falls
  • excessive noise or vibration

You need to evaluate whether a hazard is significant and if it is, whether you have taken enough precautions to make the risk as low as you reasonably can.

You need to consider:

  • your home and those who live there - including vulnerable persons, eg children, the elderly, and new and expectant mothers
  • the work done in your home
  • the equipment in your home
  • emergency procedures
  • first aid provision

Five steps to a health and safety risk assessment

  1. Identify any hazards.
  2. Decide who might be harmed and how.
  3. Assess the risks and remove them or, otherwise, reduce them as far as is reasonably possible.
  4. Record your findings.
  5. Check the risks regularly and take further steps if needed.

Please complete the attached risk assessment form for your property and return it to English Lacrosse Head Office.

Please note that the risk assessment needs to be complete annually by the 1stSeptember each year.

If you require any further information on risk assessments please go to for further information on working from home please consult English Lacrosse’s Working From Home Policy.

If you require any further information on Health and Safety at work, please consult English Lacrosse’s health and safety at work policy.

Date of risk assessment:

Step 1
What are the hazards?
Spot hazards by:
_ walking around your home/workplace;
_ asking your family and visitors what they think;
_ visiting the Your industry areas of the HSE
website or calling HSE Infoline;
_ calling the Workplace Health Connect
Adviceline or visiting their website;
_ checking manufacturers’ instructions;
_ contacting your trade association.
Don’t forget long-term health hazards / Step 2
Who might be harmed and how?
Identify groups of people. Remember:
_ some workers have particular needs;
_ people who may not be in the workplace all
the time;
_ members of the public;
_ if you share your workplace think about how
your work affects others present.
Say how the hazard could cause harm. / Step 3
What are you already
doing?
List what is already in place to
reduce the likelihood of harm or
make any harm less serious. / What further action is
necessary?
You need to make sure that you
have reduced risks ‘so far as is
reasonably practicable’. An
easy way of doing this is to
compare what you are already
doing with good practice. If
there is a difference, list what
needs to be done. / Step 4
How will you put the
assessment into action?
Remember to prioritise. Deal
with those hazards that are
high-risk and have serious
consequences first.
Action by Who / Action by When / Completed

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Home working health and safety risk assessment (updated August 2015)