Sharing and publishing risk assessments
[ch 3: pages 19-20]Employers with fewer than five employees do not have to keep a written record of the assessment, but this is good practice.
BEIS says employers should share the results of the risk assessment with the workforce and consider publishing the results on their website. It expects all businesses with over 50 employees to do so.
The TUC says it should be a legal requirement for employers to publish their risk assessments and put them on a government portal. In the absence of such a legal requirement, it has launched an online platform to monitor good and bad practice (https://covidsecurecheck.uk). It collects published risk assessments and identifies employers that have failed to publish them.
Updated on a weekly basis, it uses a traffic light system to show those with publicly-available risk assessments (green); those available on request (yellow); those where risk assessments have been carried out, but the results are not publicly available (orange); and those where the status of the risk assessment is unknown (red).