Risk Assessment Pack — already written for a kitchen.
Nine pre-filled assessments covering the hazards that actually injure hospitality staff, plus a 5 × 5 rating matrix, accident forms and a safety statement skeleton. The pre-filled ones are the value: you edit them to match your kitchen instead of staring at a blank template.
Pairs with Health & Safety in Kitchens and Manual Handling.
Pre-filled beats blank.
The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 requires employers to identify hazards, assess risks and record the result in a safety statement. Everyone knows that. What stops it happening is the blank page — so nine of these come already written for the hazards a commercial kitchen actually has, and your job is to correct them rather than invent them.
Written for the hazards that injure hospitality staff
Knives, burns and scalds, slips, deep-fat fryers, cleaning chemicals, manual handling, lone working and young workers. Each one already lists the hazard, who is at risk, the existing controls and a suggested rating.
A 5 × 5 matrix so ratings mean something
RA2 gives likelihood against severity with a plain-English band for each result. Without a shared matrix, one person’s “medium” is another person’s “high” and the ratings stop being comparable across assessments.
The accident side as well as the assessment
RA3 is the incident report and RA4 the register. Risk assessment without an accident record is half a system — the register is what tells you whether the controls you wrote down are working.
A safety statement you can actually start
RA13 is a skeleton, not a fill-in-the-blanks pretence at one. It sets out the sections a safety statement needs and leaves the content to you, because a safety statement that was not written about your workplace is worth nothing.
Sources ·
Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 ·
HSA — Safety statement and risk assessment ·
Health and Safety Authority
General guidance, not legal advice. Your own food safety management system, safety statement and the officer inspecting your premises are what govern your business.
What the sheets actually look like.
Real pages from the pack, not mock-ups. Every sheet is a fillable PDF with the limits and prompts printed on it.
RA1 — General Risk Assessment (blank)
RA2 — Risk Rating Matrix (5 × 5)
RA5 — Pre-filled: Knives
RA13 — Safety Statement Skeleton
RA3 — Accident / Incident Report
All 14 documents, by name.
No mystery bundle. This is the complete list of what downloads when you buy the pack.
Before you buy.
No, and it is not meant to be. A risk assessment has to describe your workplace — your layout, your equipment, your people. What these do is remove the blank page: the hazards and the usual controls are already written, so the work becomes editing and verifying rather than starting from nothing. Walk your kitchen with the sheet and correct it.
Yes. The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 requires one, and RA13 gives you its structure. The risk assessments in this pack are what the safety statement refers to.
Whenever something changes — new equipment, a new layout, a new process, a new starter in a role — and after any accident or near miss. A periodic review on top of that is sensible; many businesses do it annually.
RA10 covers it as one hazard among many. If manual handling is a significant part of the job, the dedicated Manual Handling Risk Assessment Pack takes it further with a task inventory and a TILE assessment for each task.
The rest of the range.
Each pack does one job. Most businesses end up with two or three.
Assess the risks. Train the people.
Fillable PDFs · download once · no subscription.
Training and records from the same place.