I have never carried out a risk assessment for a hired space involving the general public before so I am quite nervous about getting it right.
Risk Assessments are essential for ensuring the safety of people in a space being used for events or work. They are important as they help you to list all potential hazards and risks to identify who could be harmed and how so that you can have the solutions already in place to avoid accidents. I will have to cover the public, staff, myself and visitors.
You create a documents stating all of this and this is your risk assessment. If you have more than 5 employees it is the law to have a risk assessment in place. You should update your risk assessment as and when you find new hazards and risks.
I found a template on www.hse.gov.uk and created a risk assessment:


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