Risk assessments are used to determine if there are any risks associated to any and all of the activities ran by the Students' Union and Student Groups. Risk assessments are needed to assess the student group when it is first created or adopted, for any student led events, for any external trips etc. to demonstrate that we have thought about, planned for and mitigated any risks.

Under useful downloads and on the resources page you will see three separate risk assessments:

• Society Risk Assessment Template
• Sports Risk Assessment Template
• Student Led Event Risk Assessment Template

The Society and Sports Risk Assessments are needed for when a society or sports team is created or adopted. These are pre-filled risk assessments that committees need to review and edit so that they are in line with the plans for the student group. Once completed this will need to be emailed, along with your development plan and student groups rules documents, to su.studentgroups@uwl.ac.uk

The Student-Led Event risk assessment needs to be filled out when as student group is planning an event which will be ran by the committee. Once completed this needs to be emailed to su.events@uwl.ac.uk

The risk assessments will help you to calculate the probability and severity of the risks and the actions that will need to be taken to decrease the levels of probability and severity.