Create clear, professional risk assessments in minutes. List hazards, set measures and assign responsibilities, then download a clean PDF branded with your organisation.
Get Started
Create a Risk Assessment
1
Pet Grooming Risk Assessment
Create a professional, comprehensive risk assessment for pet grooming in animal care settings. Tailor hazards and measures to your needs and download a professional PDF. Add your own branding.
Begin straight away; create a free account later if you want to save.
What this covers
This template focuses on typical risks and controls for pet grooming in animal care settings. You can add, remove or adapt items to match your context.
Potential benefits
Reduces the risk of skin infections and parasites by maintaining clean and trimmed fur.
Improves pet hygiene and overall health through regular bathing and grooming.
Enhances pet comfort by removing matting, overgrown nails, and excess hair.
Reduces shedding and allergens, benefiting pet owners and indoor environments.
Supports early detection of skin conditions, lumps, and abnormalities.
Typical hazards & measures
Injury from grooming tools
— Keep all grooming tools sharp and in good condition, provide training on proper tool handling, and implement protocols for safe storage to prevent accidental injuries.
Burns from equipment
— Regularly check the temperature of dryers and clippers, provide thermal protection equipment, and train staff to monitor and adjust equipment settings to prevent burns to both animals and staff.
Chemical spills
— Develop spill response procedures, provide spill kits, and train staff on immediate actions to take in the event of a chemical spill to prevent contamination.
Inadequate emergency preparedness
— Develop and regularly update an emergency response plan, conduct drills with staff, and keep emergency contact information readily accessible to ensure preparedness for incidents such as animal injuries, fires, or natural disasters.
Inadequate lighting
— Ensure sufficient and adjustable lighting in all work areas to prevent accidents and allow for detailed grooming tasks.
How to use this template
Click Create Risk Assessment: Pet Grooming to begin immediately.
Review suggested hazards and measures, then tailor as needed.
Download your PDF. Create a free account if you want to save.
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
