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Write a risk assessment that's actually about your workplace

You've been told you need a risk assessment and you're staring at a blank template. Get one based on your real work, following the HSE's simple steps, in language your staff will understand.

Updated 17 Oct 2026

The prompt · ChatGPT

Help me write a risk assessment for my workplace.

My business and premises: [what you do and where]
Tasks: [list the main ones]
People: [staff, customers, visitors, young workers]
Equipment and substances: [list]
Anything that's gone wrong before: [details]

First ask me up to 5 short questions. Wait for my answers.

Then:
1. Look up the HSE's simple health and safety pages on risk assessment, name them and follow their steps.
2. A table: hazard, who could be harmed and how, what I already do, what else to do, who, by when.
3. The top 3 actions.
4. A short staff briefing.
5. When to review it.

Not a legal sign-off. Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts or figures. UK English.

For HSE simple health and safety guidance on risk assessment, use web search and name the page you used. If it doesn't search on its own, open View all tools and choose Search.

Stay in this ChatGPT chat. Do not turn on apps or connectors, and do not use memory from another chat.

A short example

Fill the blanks, then paste. what you do and where: a short note you already have. list the main ones: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.

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