Risk assessment involves identifying potential hazards, evaluating the likelihood and severity of harm, and taking steps to reduce risk. It considers the chance that exposure to a hazard could cause harm, like injury or health issues. An unwanted event is a loss of control over a hazard that leads to harm. The document then provides examples of risks in common settings like swimming pools, kitchens, parks and streets to identify dangerous behaviors and how risks can be reduced.

1. What is Risk
Assessment?

2. What is a risk assessment?
Put simply, risk assessment is about
deciding what could go wrong with an
activity and agreeing what needs to be
done to prevent that from happening.
Risk is the chance or probability
that a person will be harmed or
experience an adverse health
effect if exposed to a hazard.
A hazard is a source or a situation with
the potential for harm in terms of
human injury or ill-health, damage to
property, damage to the environment, or a
combination of these. ... An unwanted
event is a situation or condition where
there is a loss of control of the hazard that
leads to harm.

4. Risks
Everyone takes risks sometimes. Some risks can be good and help you to
learn new things and some risks can lead to dangerous situations.

5. Find the Risks
Look at each scene and find people who are taking dangerous risks.
• Who is at risk?
• Why they are risk?
• What the dangers are?
• How can they avoid danger?

6. Choose a Setting
The Swimming Pool The Kitchen
The Park The Street

7. The Swimming Pool
This child is at risk of slipping on the
puddles and falling into the water.
This child is diving into the pool
beside a ‘no diving’ sign. They
could cause themselves injury by
diving where it is not allowed.
These children are fooling around on one
rubber ring. They are at risk of falling
out of the ring and drowning.
This child is splashing in the pool and
could be at risk by getting into a panic if
they choke on the water.
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8. The Kitchen
This child is
risking burning
her hand on the
cooking pot and
slipping on the
banana skin.
Dad is risking getting an
electric shock by putting
a knife inside the toaster.
The baby is getting very close to a
socket and is at risk of an electric
shock. There are also lots of risks to
the baby lying around the floor.
Mum is at risk of tripping
over the cord for the iron.
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9. The Park
The child
climbing up the
slide is at risk
of slipping or
could get
knocked down
by the other
child coming
down the slide.
There is a dog off the lead nearby. These children need
to beware as not all dogs are friendly and they are at
risk of being bitten.
These children are running near some
broken glass. If one of them were to fall
they are risking a bad injury.
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10. The Street
The Street
Children are playing with a ball. They
are at risk of running out in front of a
car to catch their ball or causing an
accident if the ball rolls onto the road.
This child is taking a risk by riding their
bike on the road with no helmet. If they
have an accident they could get a very
serious head injury. road.
It is a risk to cross between
two parked cars as you can’t
get a clear view of the road.
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