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title: Conduct a safety risk assessment
description: Conduct a safety risk assessment to identify and manage potential hazards and risks, and to ensure the safety of your employees and the public.
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product: Health and Safety Risk Management
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# Conduct a safety risk assessment

Conduct a safety risk assessment to identify and manage potential hazards and risks, and to ensure the safety of your employees and the public.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_hs\_rm.risk\_assessment\_manager or sn\_hs\_rm.risk\_assessment\_writer

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **Workspaces** > **Health and Safety Workspace**.

2.  Select the risk management icon \(\[Omitted image "icon-risk-assessment.png"\] Alt text: Risk assessment icon\).

3.  Select the **Risk assessment** list and then **All**.

4.  Select **New** to start a risk assessment.

5.  On the form, fill in the fields.

    Enter details such as who is at risk, who is responsible for controls, who reviews, and who approves this risk assessment.

    For more information on risk field descriptions, see [Risk assessment form](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/health-and-safety-risk-management/hs-risk-assessment-form.md).

6.  If necessary, attach an image about the risk using the add attachments icon \(\[Omitted image "icon-add-attachment.png"\] Alt text: Add attachment icon.\).

7.  Research content related to the risk assessment by selecting the Agent assist icon \(\[Omitted image "Form\_AgentAssistIcon.png"\] Alt text: agent assist icon\).

    Agent assist searches the knowledge base using the text from the risk assessment's **Short description** field and shows relevant articles.

8.  Select **Save**.

    The **Risk analyses**, **Risk actions**, and **Action schedules** tabs appear for this risk assessment.

9.  In the **Risk analyses** tab, add risk analysis records to evaluate the risk level of identified hazards.

    For more information, see [Perform risk analysis for a safety risk assessment](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/health-and-safety-risk-management/hs-perform-risk-analysis-safety-risk-assessment.md) and [Create a risk analysis from a job](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/health-and-safety-risk-management/import-hazards-and-controls.md).

10. In the **Action schedules** tab, set up actions to address an identified risk or implement control measures necessary to improve workplace safety.

    The action schedule creates actions in the **Risk actions** tab and auto-assigns them to individuals using the condition builder. For more information, see [Create a Health and Safety action schedule](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/health-and-safety-core/create-health-safety-action-schedule.md).

11. In the **Details** tab, mark the risk assessment as complete when all associated risk analyses are finished.

    1.  In the **Assessment completed** field, select the completion date.

    2.  Set the **State** field to Complete.


## Result

-   The overall level of risk, both before and after controls, is based on the severity and likelihood of each hazard that is listed in the **Risk analyses** tab. It is determined based on the highest identified risk in the **Risk analyses** list.​
-   The computed risk levels appear in the **Inherent risk** and **Residual risk** fields in the risk assessment's form header.

## What to do next

After the risk assessment is complete, assign a reviewer and approver for it, if necessary. Only a user with the Risk assessment approver \[sn\_hs\_rm.risk\_assessment\_approver\] role can be assigned as an approver.

**Parent Topic:**[Safety risk assessment](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/health-and-safety-risk-management/hs-risk-assessment.md)