A new online risk assessment will help cut back the time it takes to weigh up the hazards in offices to just 20 minutes. 20 minuten online The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has produced the web tool to help employers to consider relevant hazards in their office and think about how they control them to keep staff safe. Launched on 20th October, the tool will help avoid unnecessary paperwork and bureaucracy for office-based businesses, which tend to be low risk. Safety officials will take account of the results of the assessments when they carry out inspections - evidence that businesses have taken appropriate steps to manage workplace risk. Judith Hackitt, the HSE chair, said "Many people assume that risk assessments need to be long, formal documents covering every hazard, no matter how minor or unlikely to occur. That's not the case and the new 20-minute risk assessments make it clear that this can be done for any office quickly and easily. "We've previously provi...