Are you the manager of an accountancy firm?
In search of a health and safety risk assessment tailored to your activity?
Do you need a pre-filled assessment to save you hours of work?
Want to be in compliance with safety regulations?
 
Our health and safety risk assessment is designed to meet your needs with:
→ A professional risk assessment totally specific to accountancy firms.
→ A professional risk assessment specific to accounting.
→ Risk prevention proposals dedicated to chartered accountants.
→ The integration of risks linked to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.
 
All this in an easily editable Excel format, allowing you to make personalized updates on your own.
 
FEATURES OF THE HEALTH AND SAFETY RISK ASSESSMENT 
 
This 5-page Excel file includes:
A Cover Page
A Company Information page
A presentation of the Risk Assessment Methodology used.
An occupational risks assessment tailored to your sector of activity.
A risk prevention schedule with all the different safety measures.

It contains 23 occupational risk situations classified into 6 work units:
Accounting
Administration and secretariat
Customer contact
Road travel
Working environment
Work premises
 
☑ Complies with the employer's obligation to assess risks
(Regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulation 1999)
☑ Adheres to the General Principles of Prevention
(Schedule 1 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulation 1999)
☑ Takes into account good practice and pitfalls in risk assessment
(Report RR151 from the Health and Safety Executive)
 
EXCERPTS FROM THE HEALTH AND SAFETY RISK ASSESSMENT 
 
The danger of prolonged sitting at the workstation: The job of an accountant involves spending a great deal of time in a seated position, working at a computer or on a ledger. For the overwhelming majority of accountants, this means sitting in a prolonged static position for almost seven hours a day, every day of the working week. Remaining in this static position is a vector of various physical health risks. The risks associated with working in a prolonged seated position are present on a daily basis for accountants. Certain risk factors, such as not taking regular breaks during the working day to change posture (e.g. standing up), or working with unsuitable or badly-adjusted office furniture (e.g. desk chair too high or desk too low, forcing you to bend forward) are aggravating factors. Prolonged sitting can lead to various musculoskeletal disorders, such as neck stiffness and pain, sometimes with the onset of osteoarthritis, muscular pain in the trapezius area of the upper back, as well as varicose veins and venous circulation disorders. Lack of movement also has an effect on heart fitness and the shape of the body as a whole.
 
Prolonged work on computer screens: Today's accountants need to use computers on a daily basis, as most company accounts are now managed by software. This daily use of computers results in prolonged exposure to screens, which represents a source of short-term physical risk. Long-term physical risks have yet to be demonstrated. The risks associated with computer work depend on a number of factors: distance from the screen, brightness of the screen and of the workroom, type of screen used (LCD, OLED, cathode-ray, etc.). If you don't take a break to rest your eyes during the working day, staring into the distance increases the risk of visual fatigue, discomfort and loss of concentration. The main possible risks associated with prolonged computer screen use in the short term are fatigue, irritability, headaches, blurred vision, eyestrain and dry eyes. The use of close-up vision when working on a computer could potentially favour certain vision disorders, but this has not yet been demonstrated.
 
The danger of temporary work overloads: Accountancy firm staff may be subject to occasional work overloads due to a peak in activity. In the accounting profession, the tax period from January to May is particularly conducive to this. However, excessive work rates, maintained over a relatively long period of time, can give rise to a number of psychosocial risks for certain employees. The risks associated with work overloads in accounting firms are correlated to a ratio between the number of client companies to be handled simultaneously, and the number of staff available to deal with them. It is important for the accounting firm to determine this ratio and not exceed it, or exceed it only in exceptional cases, so as not to exhaust its staff. The possible damage caused by overwork is a deterioration in the working atmosphere, irritability, stress and/or anxiety, lifestyle problems (e.g.: snacking leading to obesity, insomnia linked to mental ruminations, etc.), increased risk of attraction and dependency on psychotropic substances offering comfort (medication, tobacco, drugs), or even Burn-Out.
 
 
A GUARANTEE OF THE QUALITY OF OUR HEALTH AND SAFETY RISK ASSESSMENT 
_ We're registered as Professional Risk Prevention Consultants.
_ Our team comprises graduate safety engineers.
_ Our documents are routinely checked by safety inspectors.
_ We frequently update our Occupational Risk Assessments.
 
RESOURCES 
_ "Practical health and safety for accountants" by accountingweb.