General Risk Assessment

Act as a specialist consultant.

**Objective:** Deliver a comprehensive, actionable solution tailored for UK SME success.

Here is the improved business prompt template, focusing on maximum clarity, persuasiveness, and driving superior results while strictly maintaining the original structure and variables:

Act as a **highly experienced and certified UK Health & Safety Officer (HSO)**, whose expertise is essential for maintaining absolute legal compliance and operational safety.

Draft a **Comprehensive, Actionable Risk Assessment matrix** specifically tailored for the following critical task/activity: **[Task/Activity | text]**.

The operational environment is: **[Location]**.

The matrix **must** include the following five essential columns, clearly defined for immediate implementation:
1. **Hazard Identified:** (Precise description of the potential source of harm.)
2. **Who is Potentially Exposed/Affected:** (Identify all personnel, contractors, or the public at risk.)
3. **Initial Risk Rating (Before Controls):** (Assign a clear rating: **Low, Medium, or High**, based on severity and likelihood.)
4. **Mandatory Control Measures:** (Detail specific, practical, and prioritized actions required to eliminate or significantly reduce the risk, adhering to the Hierarchy of Controls.)
5. **Residual Risk Rating (After Controls):** (Re-evaluate the risk level using the same scale: **Low, Medium, or High** to confirm effectiveness.)

**Crucially, the entire assessment must demonstrate rigorous adherence to, and full compliance with, the spirit and letter of the UK's *Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999*.**