How to use the Workplace hazard assessment template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Workplace hazard assessment template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Workplace hazard assessment”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Walk the area with the people who work there. Rate risk after current controls; anything high gets an extra control and a date.”
Fill in each part
- Table Columns: Hazard · Who could be harmed · Controls in place · Risk now · Extra control · Owner, by when
- Rating risk How likely, times how bad, with today’s controls.
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Workplace hazard assessment board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

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