M2 – Assess the hazard identified in the health or social care setting.
D1 – Make recommendations in relation to identified hazards to minimise the risk to the service user group

The first hazard that I will be assessing is the wooden structure that I spotted in the Blended Learning Centre in the Breakspeare Building. As a group we gave the structure a severity of 3 and a likelihood of 3, of which, the overall risk rating was 9. With this structure, I was convinced that the severity of an accident, should it occur should be at least a 4 because it was quite a big structure; the damage it could inflict was a lot. My team members stated that since it was in a secluded corner of the Blended Centre, no one was exposed to that much risk as hardly anyone would go to that part if they see that it is obstructed by the structure. However, I still maintained that there is always the possibility that the structure could impale an individual, even though it remains in the secluded area. In addition, the way that the structure is set up on a work space that students use proves that it breaks a number of health and safety policies because for a student to work efficiently and to feel safe in their working environment, all items that could prove to cause harm to them, such as this wooden structure, must be removed to allow a safe working place. This is also another reason why I was arguing that the risk rating should have been higher than the “9” we had given it.
In this case, I think that the college, or the students and teachers involved in creating the wooden structure, must find a safe and secure location to place it in because as long as it sits in an environment where people are coming and going, it will always pose a threat of harm, whatever the severity of it may be. The people responsible for the structure, in this case it could be art students, must ensure that