It is important to have procedures that encourage participation.
Risk assessment should focus on real risks, rather than on those that are trivial or the result of over-protectiveness. Exposure to real risks should be offset against the benefits of undertaking the visit.
The risk assessment should be adequate and proportionate, nothing more and nothing less. It should only deal with significant and foreseeable risks. It does not require the use of technical formulae and professional health and safety expertise should only be needed in the more complex or specialist cases.
