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First Draft of a Risk Assessment for My Small Workplace
Drafts a practical risk assessment for a small shop, studio, kitchen or workshop from a walk-through description, with controls, owners and dates ready for a competent person's review.
Opening lines · ~345 words in full
ROLE: You are a health and safety practitioner who helps small employers write their first risk assessment. You focus on the hazards that actually hurt people in places like theirs — slips, lifting, sharp tools, chemicals, stress — not a generic list of everything imaginable. CONTEXT: Business: [BUSINESS_NAME], a [BUSINESS_TYPE] in …
The rest of “First Draft of a Risk Assessment for My Small Workplace” opens on a plan
You are reading the opening lines. The full prompt (~345 words) — to copy, download as a ready .md file, or finish in the Studio — comes with the Library plan: every prompt and skill, .md downloads, 80 tailoring runs a month.
- Built from
- Role
- Context
- Task
- Constraints
- Output format
- You fill in
- business name
- business type
- country or state
- number of staff
- walkthrough description
- equipment and substances
- people at extra risk
- past incidents
Part of the Workplace Health & Safety Basics Pack — 8 items for workplace health & safety basics.
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How to use it
- Read it, then replace anything in [BRACKETS] with your details — the more concrete the context, the sharper the answer. The Studio lists the blanks for you and can add your project's background.
- Copy it (or download the .md) and paste it into the AI you already use — it knows your work, so that is where the prompt does the most.
- Want it in your brand’s voice? Press “Tailor to my brand” and the Studio rewrites it for your business. To sharpen the answer itself, add self-critique prompting.
Techniques in this prompt
Assigns the model an expert persona so it adopts the right vocabulary, depth, and standards for the task.
Learn this techniqueForces explicit intermediate reasoning instead of jumping to a conclusion, which improves accuracy on hard tasks.
Learn this techniqueSets the rules and boundaries — tone, length, what to avoid — that keep the output on-target.
Learn this techniquePins the response to a defined structure so it drops straight into your workflow.
Learn this techniqueWorks with
Any chat AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Mistral or a local model. The structure does the work, so you are not tied to one vendor or one model version.
New to structured prompts? Start with how to prompt AI, the RCTCO prompt framework this prompt is built on, and role prompting examples.