Workplace Risk Analysis

When selecting a risk analysis method, several procedures can be used. The procedure and the risk assessment method selection are dependent on the goal to be 

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European Commission for these and other substances by nominated dates. The toxicological data and estimation of exposure will form the basis of risk analysis and deterrnination of the appropriate restriction and control of substances in the workplace (58). Restriction of the sales of dangerous substances and preparations to the general pubHc is enforced under Directive 76/769 EC (59). 

It is worth discussing the workplace safety and health concept developed and implemented in the United Kingdom. Some of the Commonwealth countries, particularly Australia, have adopted this concept as well. The concept reduces the amount of regulation for safety and health details by the government. The concept relies on risk analysis and the hierarchy of controls (see Table 3-2) for companies, employers, and workers. It contrasts with the approach in the United States in which government agencies, such as... 

Risk-Based Safety Legislation for Workplace Safety and Health The end result was an approach based on risk analysis that extends all the way to the worker level. The analysis leads to decisions at any level being driven by making work safe. That leads to a safety management system, covered in more detail in Chapter 35. 

Australia adopted this approach with the National Occupational Health and Safety Strategy in 2002. The strategy involved the Commonwealth, six states, and two territories. A publication by Safe Work Australia illustrates how to manage workplace safety and health under the overall approach. The implementation extends to worker levels using risk analysis and the hierarchy of controls. Figure 5-1 provides an example of a worker-level card to help in decision-making. 

One step toward prevention of workplace violence is instituting a strong policy that has no tolerance for workplace violence. The policy should cover workers, patients, clients, visitors, contractors, and others who come into contact with employees. Particular preventive actions come from hazard and risk analysis and identifying factors that may contribute to violence cases and conditions. Another approach is training employees to recognize potential violence and to... 

The type of risk analysis or evaluation method used will vary from organisation to organisation whether a numerical matrix or high, medium, low matrix is used will very much be dependent upon the risk levels of an organisation s activities and workplaces. 

Derived from task analysis or work study, job safety analysis, whether effected as part of work study or not, can do much to eliminate the hazards of a job. The analysis identifies every single operation in a job, examines the specific hazards and indicates remedial measures necessary. It involves the examination of a number of areas, including permit to work systems, influences on behaviour, the operator training required and the degree of supervision and control necessary. Job safety analysis can feature as part of a workplace risk assessment. 

Occupational health and safety finds itself in abreakthrongh condition. Tasks of a traditional safety technician in the past were connected to activities in only one field. However, these tendencies are gradually changing. Peak functions in the field of complex workplace safety expect in the future to cope with tasks in the field of OHS, safety of mechanical devices (SMD), environmental protection, management of hazardous substances and critical industrial accidents, quality managanent, as well as in the field of explosion and fire protection. Classic activities aimed at retrospective accident analysis methods are replaced by prospective methods aimed at application of modern risk analysis methods at the initial stages of a machine s technical life and projection of job positions. 

Risk analysis. Here we are concerned with the identification and evaluation of hazards at the workplaces and the estimation of risk. Data on accidents serve as an important input. 

When we design a database on accidents and near accidents, we also have to consider what other types of data we may want to store in later developments of the database. In the end, we may, for example, be interested in integrating data from accident and near-accident investigations with reports on unsafe conditions, nonconformities, workplace inspections, risk analysis and SHE audits in a common database. 

This Part reviews different risk-analysis methods. Risk analysis is a planned activity involving an identification and evaluation of accident risks in the workplace. We will start in Chapter 21 by establishing some common principles of the different risk-analysis methods. We will then in Chapters 22 to 25 go through four different methods that primarily are used in the analysis of the risk of occupational accidents energy analysis, job-safety analysis and comparison analysis. One chapter is dedicated to the risk assessment of machinery. Finally, we will in Chapter 26 review the CRIOP method, where the interaction between the operators and the technical system are analysed when the system is in a disturbed state. The aim is here to prevent major accidents. 

Internal distribution of individual reports Accidents and near accidents Unsafe conditions Workplace inspections Nonconformities Risk analysis SHE audits... 

Analysis object The part of the workplace which defines the scope of the risk analysis (e.g. an area in coarse job-safety analysis and a specific job in detailed job-safety analysis). 

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