Stability and reproducibility of semi-quantitative risk assessment methods within the occupational health and safety scope

Work ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 591-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Carvalho ◽  
R.B. Melo
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Quantitative Risk Assessment

scholarly journals MEVA - a new method of occupational health and safety risk assessment

2019 ◽  
Vol 290 ◽  
pp. 12008
Author(s):  
Doru-Costin Darabont ◽  
Eduard Smîdu ◽  
Alina Trifu ◽  
Vicențiu Ciocîrlea ◽  
Iulian Ivan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Deductive Reasoning ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
New Method ◽  
Risk Level ◽  
Simple Method ◽  
Safety Risk

The paper describes a new method of occupational health and safety risk assessment. This method, called MEVA, unlike the old ones, focuses more on reduce or eliminate subjective issues in determining the probability of manifestation of risk factors and is based on a deductive reasoning, with the help of which is studied the chain between two or more events. The novelty of the method consists in combining risk assessment techniques with evaluation of compliance with legal and other requirements, aiming to provide a more objective results of the risk assessment. In the MEVA method, the risk matrix is defined by 5 classes of severity and 5 probability classes, resulting in 5 levels of risk. After quantifying the risk factors, prevention measures are proposed for all the identified risk factors and each partial risk level is recalculated as a result of the proposed measures. The five levels of risk were grouped into three categories: acceptable, tolerable and unacceptable. The MEVA method is a simple method and it can be used for assessing various workplaces, with different characteristics of complexity, activity domain or occupational health and safety recordings.

scholarly journals A brief review of the risk assessment in Romania compared to Finland

2020 ◽  
Vol 305 ◽  
pp. 00001
Author(s):  
Crina Maria Barb
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Assessment Instruments ◽  
Successful Management ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Current Perspective ◽  
Work Accidents ◽  
A Current

Risk assessment is a foundation for successful management of Occupational Health and Safety, as well as an important key in order to decrease the number of work accidents. Moreover, risk assessment is an essential part of normal safety activity in work places and it includes positive factors such as: productivity, motivation and creativity. The first part of the paper focuses on a legislative background of risk assessment in Romania compared to Finland, based on the Occupational Health and Safety Act. The second part represents a comparative analysis regarding the risk assessment instruments used in Romania in comparison with those from Finland. The third part includes a current perspective regarding risk management in Finland and its impact of the situation in work life. The aim of this paper is to realize a brief review of risk assessment in Romania compared to Finland in order to take into consideration both the advantages and disadvantages regarding legislation, instruments used in the process of risk assessment in these countries.

scholarly journals Can Complexity-Thinking Methods Contribute to Improving Occupational Safety in Industry 4.0? A Review of Safety Analysis Methods and Their Concepts

Safety ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriaensen ◽  
Decré ◽  
Pintelon
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Safety Analysis ◽  
Machine Intelligence ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Analysis Methods ◽  
Complexity Thinking

With the introduction of Industry 4.0, occupational health and safety finds itself confronted with new types of hazards. Many Industry 4.0 innovations involve increased machine intelligence. These properties make socio-technical work in Industry 4.0 applications inherently more complex. At the same time, system failure can become more opaque to its users. This paper reviews and assesses safety analysis methods as the breakdown of interaction coupling in socio-technical systems on the one hand, and the degree of failure tractability on the other hand; the latter being used as a proxy for complexity. Previous literature confirms that traditional health and safety risk assessment methods are unable or are ‘ill-equipped’ to deal with these system properties. This paper studies the need to introduce new paradigms and safety methods related to complexity thinking with theories borrowed from the study of complex adaptive systems, all to assess the arena of abruptly changing hazards introduced by Industry 4.0. At the same time, this review makes clear that there is no one-solution-fits-all method. Occupational health and safety (OHS) covers many different hazard types and will need a combination of old, new and yet-to-be-developed safety assessment methods.

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