Risk Assessment Generator for Trades
Risk assessment generator that records an assessment properly: list each hazard, who is at risk and the controls in place, then rate likelihood × severity for an automatic risk score and residual risk. Structured on HSE's five steps.
1 Assessment
2 Hazards — rate likelihood × severity (1–5 each)
3 Notes & sign-off
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Leave an honest Google reviewReviews are optional. Please only review based on your genuine experience.Every "template" is a static form
The risk assessment templates that rank are static — HSE's own Word document, gov.uk files, university PDFs, or a consultancy form gated behind a lead-capture. You still do the risk-rating maths by hand.
This is interactive: enter the hazard and rate likelihood and severity, and it works out the risk score and flags the high ones for you.
Likelihood × severity, scored automatically
Give each hazard a likelihood (1–5) and a severity (1–5) and the tool multiplies them into a risk rating, colour-flagged low, medium or high, so the priorities jump out.
Then record the further controls and the residual risk, with an owner and a review date — the loop HSE expects.
Structured the way HSE tells you to
Identify the hazards
What could cause harm on this task.
Assess the risks
Who might be harmed, how likely and how serious — rate it.
Control the risks
Eliminate the hazard or put controls in place.
Record & review
Record the findings, then review after changes or incidents.
When it has to be in writing
Everyone must assess the risks of their work. You must record the significant findings in writing if you employ five or more people — and even below that, a written record is the simplest way to show you've done it.
A competent person must carry out the assessment; this tool records it, it doesn't make the judgements for you.
Working at height, construction, electrical — and method statements
Use it for the hazards trades actually face — working at height, construction, electrical, hot works, roofing and more — adding the hazards and controls that fit the task.
Pair the finished risk assessment with a method statement and you have a RAMS — the risk assessment and method statement package many principal contractors ask for.
A recording aid, not H&S advice
This helps a competent person record a risk assessment — it doesn't assess your site, choose your controls, or constitute health-and-safety or legal advice. The judgements are yours.
It follows HSE's five-step method (checked August 2026), but you must make sure the assessment genuinely reflects the task, and review it when things change.
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.
RAMS Template
The job and the sequence of work first, then the risk table underneath — hazard, possible risks, required controls — with PPE and emergency arrangements. Quick starts for MEWP, height, electrical, plumbing and site work. Free A4 PDF.
the RAMS pack — both halves together →Construction Phase Plan Generator
A CDM 2015 construction phase plan built on HSE's six required sections, sized for a small or domestic job.
the CDM plan it feeds →Method Statement Generator
Write a method statement — the safe system of work — with a numbered sequence, PPE and plant. Pairs with a risk assessment as RAMS.
write the matching method statement →Toolbox Talk Template
Pick a topic, brief the crew and record who attended — a free toolbox talk template with a signed attendance register on one A4 PDF.
brief the crew on it →Hot Works Permit Template
Complete a hot works permit on screen — validity window, precautions checklist, timed fire watch and four signatures — and download a branded A4 PDF free.
issue the hot works permit →Construction COSHH Assessment Template
Fill in a construction COSHH assessment on screen — one sheet per substance, with cement, silica dust, MDF, expanding foam, solvents, flux fume and more pre-filled from a trade library — and download a branded A4 PDF free.
Construction COSHH Assessment Template →Risk assessment questions
Quick answers to the questions people ask most.
Assess it, record it, review it
A recorded risk assessment is the foundation of a safe job. FieldHive helps you record one on the HSE structure — then pair it with a method statement to form your RAMS.
