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- Title
Occupational Risk Assessment: Imperatives for Process Improvement.
- Authors
BĂBUŢ, Gabriel Bujor; MORARU, Roland Iosif
- Abstract
It is well known that the starting point in designing and achieving of an effective occupational health and safety management system is, always, the occupational risk assessment. Although in principle the risk assessment process is a powerful and effective tool, if not used with caution and discernment, the results can be completely incorrect, leading to wrong, practically inapplicable decisions. Performing the risk assessment in an attempt to justify a decision already taken from other reasons, lack of involvement of a team in the assessment or non-inclusion in the team of workers, inefficient use, sometimes formal, of external consultants, non-use of results and not correlating hazards with the control measures are some of the specific errors that continues for more than 10 years to strike, in Romania, the results effectiveness of a process that continues to be unacceptably frequently characterized by an unpractical formalism. In this context, the present paper tries to synthesize the basic principles and recommended occupational risk assessment practices, outlining the way in which the hazard identification and risk management strategies should be founded on the involvement of all stakeholders. There are systematized the issues regarding the purpose, principles and working methods, but also concerning future actions, useful information, selection of assessors for reaching the goal and monitoring the efficiency of results.
- Publication
Quality - Access to Success, 2018, Vol 19, Issue 166, p133
- ISSN
1582-2559
- Publication type
Academic Journal