What is a risk assessment?

Businesses are legally required to perform a risk assessment in their workplace, regardless of their size. A risk assessment is at the core of a health & safety management procedure that ensures the workplace is compliant with any industry regulations. During a risk assessment, all activities and workplace aspects are scanned in order to identify any risks for either your staff or your customers. A written record of a risk assessment should always be kept in your documents as well.

Why do I need a Risk Assessment App?

Going through a risk assessment procedure can be a complex and lengthy task for many companies. If you are looking to streamline the process, eliminate the possibility of human error and automate the process, an app is a great option that allows you to save time and money. The app allows users to create bespoke risk assessments based on individual business needs. This way, the reports can be shared with any employee allowing different departments to analyse the KPIs that matter, and take further decisions based on results & statistics. This will ensure your workforce functions in a safe environment where the right control measures have been implemented.

Why is Risk Assessment important in Health and Safety?

Risks assessments are essential in not only protecting your customers and workforce from potential incidents but it also ensures your business operates in a compliant and safe way. The way risk can be minimised is by assessing the steps that can lead to a potential incident and correct them accordingly. With a Risk Assessment tool in place, you can save considerable amounts of expense caused by compensation claims or other insurance premiums. Considering the number of measures that are being instated every year, your company needs to take the right measures in ensuring the business stay compliant with all of the health and safety regulations.

What are the struggles of a regular Risk Assessment?

One of the main struggles of a Risk Assessment is keeping track of all the data that you have collected - records, forms. This can get very messy and if you losing any of them or misplacing records can have a negative impact. It is also hard to get everyone to contribute in a clear way as well as keeping track of what is happening at your staff level. Responsibilities and tasks can be lost and you end up with having a blurred strategy and no accountability.

UKCA and CE Self-Certification with RiskMach

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RiskMach offers a powerful tool that makes the product self-certification process required by UK and EU legislation easy. With our handy integrated software solution, you can complete the relevant conformity assessment procedure, ensure your product is compliant with the statutory industry standards of the intended market and gather all legally-required technical documentation, including a UK Declaration of Conformity or an EU Declaration of Conformity.

Enjoy peace of mind, knowing that you have fulfilled your duty and responsibility as a manufacturer and you have obtained your CE mark or UKCA mark correctly.

Manage all aspects of the self-certification process in one collaborative space

Almost all products that require a CE mark or a UKCA mark don't require a third-party assessment. However, the self-certification procedure and requirements are different for each individual product, so it can be difficult to gather all relevant information and design the risk assessment right.

RiskMach has the capability to help you organise and execute all the key elements of the UKCA / CE self-certification process listed below:

Conformity Planning – Plan and schedule a conformity assessment
Design Risk Assessment – Identify risk and assess risk levels
Selection of Protective Measures – Design and implement measures to ensure compliance
Review at intervals to ensure verification and validation of protective measures is properly evidenced
Conformity Assessment – Ensure compliance with all EU legislation, including the Machinery Directive. Organise records to the applicable essential health and safety requirements (EHSRs).
Compile the technical construction file – Issue all records, including PDFs generated by RiskMach, to the RiskMach Vault where they are held for a minimum of 10 years.
Certification Audit (Optional) – Record an audit of the technical construction file and the as-built machine to achieve a high level of confidence
Certification (CE) – Draw up an EU Declaration of conformity for CE marking. If RiskMach vault is used then RiskMach is the named person holding the technical construction file in the EEA
Certification (UK) – Draw up a UK Declaration of Conformity for UKCA marking. If RiskMach vault is used then RiskMach is the named person holding the technical construction file in the UK

View a full list of our certifications and training packages available.

What are the benefits for your business?

Any CE and UKCA certification project can get messy – it's a complicated process but by introducing RiskMach to your team, you can ensure that at the end, you have demonstrated systematically that all foreseeable risks have been considered and reduced adequately within the limitations of the project.

Organise the chaos of Design Risk Assessment

Thanks to our comprehensive system, the three key parts of the Design Risk Assessment: information gathering, risk analysis and risk evaluation can be organised and kept track of as new information comes to light.

Facilitate collaboration

RiskMach is a common platform where multiple people with various levels of technical knowledge can contribute to the Design Risk Assessment stage of product self-certification, ensuring that all potential risks have been addressed.

Build a flawless technical file

Never miss an important document in your technical file! With our easy-to-use platform, everyone involved in the CE process will be able to request and share documents to compile all the information needed to complete the technical file that goes with your UKCA or CE certification.

Keep records safe for at least 10 years

RiskVault allows you to store safely all the information in your product’s technical file, as well as the Declaration of Conformity for at least a decade. This way you can be sure to have all necessary documentation at hand if the relevant authorities come looking for it.

Microsoft Single Sign On

We know that managing access to a range of portals can be tricky. Especially as people leave the business. RiskMach has integrated Microsoft single sign on to give you and your IT a central point from which to control access to company data.

Frequently Asked Questions

From January 2021, many products sold on the GB market must have a UKCA mark to prove they are compliant with the relevant UK regulations. If your products were previously CE-marked chances are you will need UKCA certification.

If you are a UK-based company that manufactures products for the EU or NI markets, you will need to comply with the EU health and safety standards. A CE mark indicates your products conform to those.

Both CE certification and UKCA certification fall under the duties of the manufacturer, as it is your legal responsibility to ensure the safety of your products.

Almost all products subject to CE and UKCA regulations are available for self-certification. The list of exceptions is short and includes just 17 groups of RiskMachinery, some Class I medical devices and a few other individual products.

You must keep the Declaration of Conformity and the technical file for each product for a minimum of 10 years, as those could be requested by the relevant market authorities at any point. With RiskMach Vault these documents will be stored in a safe space for at least 10 years.