 | This area of the website provides both generic and specific guidance on producing Risk Assessments. This is a key requirement for Health and Safety Management. Some of the supplied templates may be adapted to suit your individual needs as required. If you have any information you feel would be relevant to add to this section, please send it to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for inclusion
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Read the HSE publication "Five Steps to Risk Assessment" http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg163.pdf This tells you how to do a risk assessment for occupational health and safety. This is not the only way to do a risk assessment, there are other methods that work well, particularly for more complex risks and circumstances. However we believe this method is the most straightforward for most organisations.
Bioaerosol is simply a general term for micro-organisms suspended in the air. These micro-organisms include fungi and bacteria, as well as their components such as mycotoxins, endotoxins and glucans. Bioaerosols are generally less than 10 μm in size and are not filtered out by hairs and specialised cells that line the nose. Due to their airborne nature and small size, many bioaerosols can penetrate the human respiratory system, resulting in inflammatory and allergic responses (Wheeler et al 2001; Swan et al, 2003).
Using a generic risk assessment for an open windrow composting site, the following document gives an example of an assessment carried out by the Environment Agency.
The assessment provides information on potential hazards, their level of potential danger to the receiving environment as well as mitigation against them.
This is a worked example of a risk assessment for managing traffic at a biowaste facility.
To download the document click HERE
