Electrical Risk Assessment Template
Electrical risk assessment template with an electricians' hazard library: electric shock and burns from live conductors, arc flash at boards, hidden cables when chasing and drilling, working at height in lofts and on towers, dust, asbestos in pre-2000 buildings, manual handling, trailing leads in occupied premises, restricted spaces and fire — each with the usual controls in the Electricity at Work Regulations' terms and a starting rating on the 5×5 matrix. Add the hazards for the job, edit anything, sign, print. Free, no sign-up.
1 Assessment
2 Hazards — rate likelihood × severity (1–5 each)
3 Notes & sign-off
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Search 'electrical risk assessment template' and the useful results — fourteen electrical hazards on a 5×5 matrix, a checklist app with signatures — each want an account before you can download. The rest is HSE's generic template, a form for electricians with no controls in it, and a document shop. Nobody gives an electrician the hazards of electrical work pre-filled on a UK form they can print without signing up.
This page does. The library is written for what a sparky meets on a domestic or small commercial job, in that order: dead working and proving dead, arc flash, hidden cables, height, dust from chasing, asbestos, manual handling, trailing leads in an occupied house, lofts and risers, fire. Each comes with the usual controls and a starting rating; every line stays editable, and the form is the same risk assessment generator used across the site.
Describe the task, add the hazards from the library, rate, sign
The assessment
Your company and reference, the task, the location, who is at risk, the assessor, the date and the review date.
The hazards
Click the electrical hazards that apply and each lands in the table with who might be harmed, the usual controls and a likelihood and severity to start from. Change any of it, add hazards of your own, note further action and the residual risk. The highest risk prints on the header.
Sign and print
Your signature on screen or on the print. The assessment prints A4 landscape so the hazard table has room. Free PDF; the editable Word version and your logo unlock with an email.
MHSWR regulation 3 for the assessment; the Electricity at Work Regulations for the controls
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (regulation 3) require every employer and self-employed person to assess the risks of their work and, where five or more are employed, to record the significant findings — and clients and principal contractors ask for the record regardless of size. The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 set the controls the assessment leans on: equipment maintained to prevent danger (regulation 4), no work on or near live conductors unless it is unreasonable for them to be dead and it is reasonable to work live with suitable precautions (regulation 14), and adequate precautions to prevent equipment being made live while work is done (regulation 13). HSE's guidance HSR25 explains them; GS38 covers the test instruments used to prove dead.
The library's controls are written in those terms — isolate, lock off, prove dead with a proved indicator, only the person who isolated removes the lock. They are starting points; the assessor is responsible for the assessment being suitable and sufficient for the job. This page is not health-and-safety advice.
Ten hazards, the usual controls
The control that runs through the library
Isolate and lock off
At the point stated, with a caution notice; the person who isolated holds the key and removes the lock.
Prove dead
With a GS38-compliant voltage indicator, proved on a known source before and after the test at the point of work.
Live working
Only where it is unreasonable for the conductors to be dead and reasonable to work live with suitable precautions — justified, authorised and separately controlled.
Re-energise
In an agreed sequence, once everyone is clear and the covers are back on.
Sits with the COSHH sheets, the permit and the certificates
The risk assessment comes first; the COSHH assessment covers the flux, foam and dust in it; the electrical permit to work checks the isolation on the day; the minor works or condition report certifies the work. FieldHive has a free form for each.
The assessor assesses. We supply the form.
This tool lays the assessment out, does the matrix arithmetic and prints it. It does not know your job, and the library is a starting point in FieldHive's wording — not a list of the hazards on your site. The person who signs is responsible for the assessment being suitable and sufficient. None of this is health-and-safety or electrical-safety advice.
The FieldHive app does not produce risk assessments. This is a free standalone form. The PDF is free with no sign-up; the editable Word version and the logo upload unlock with an email.
Turn it into a connected job workflow
FieldHive keeps the enquiry, quote, job, invoice and payment connected — so it's built from the accepted quote instead of retyped, and the numbers carry through.
Other free tools for your trade
More FieldHive document tools — and the calculators behind the figures.
COSHH Risk Assessment for Electricians
Flux fume, PU foam, silica dust from chasing, plasterboard dust — one sheet per substance.
assess the substances →Electrical Isolation Certificate
Each isolation point with its lock and notice, proving dead recorded, four sign-offs. One page.
record the isolation →Permit to Work Template
The electrical isolation permit — isolated, locked off, proved dead, re-energising sequence agreed.
issue the permit →Method Statement Generator
How the work will be done, step by step — the other half of the RAMS.
write the method statement →Minor Electrical Installation Works Certificate
The BS 7671 certificate for the work once it is done.
certify the work →Electrical risk assessment questions
Quick answers to the questions people ask most.
The assessment is one sheet in the job
A risk assessment is written for one task on one job. FieldHive keeps the enquiry, quote, job, invoice and payment connected for that customer — the assessment is the one thing it leaves to you.
