scholarly journals COMPETENCE PROBLEMS OF PROFESSIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT

2022 ◽  
Vol 1 (15) ◽  
pp. 191-195
Author(s):  
Darya Kiseleva ◽  
Aleksandra Prusakova
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Labor Protection ◽  
Occupational Risks

The characteristics of the assessment of professional risks are given. The analysis of the competence of labor protection specialists for the assessment of occupational risks has been carried out

Working in elevated temperatures: risks and consequences

2020 ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
Anatoly Zernov
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
High Temperatures ◽  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
Industrial Safety ◽  
Labor Protection ◽  
Technological Processes ◽  
Occupational Risks

A number of technological processes are accompanied by an increase in surface temperature and the release of heat into the working area. The speaker of the conference “Assessment of occupational risks. Working in high temperatures" Anatoly Zernov, expert in the field of professional risk assessment and expertise in the field of labor protection and industrial safety, head of the methodological department RiskProf

scholarly journals Biological risk assessment: A challenge for occupational health and safety practitioners during the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) Pandemic

Work ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Carlos Carvalhais ◽  
Micaela Querido ◽  
Cristiana C. Pereira ◽  
Joana Santos
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Risk Level ◽  
Biological Risk ◽  
Occupational Risks ◽  
Qualitative Risk Assessment ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Medium Risk

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 global pandemic brought several challenges to occupational safety and health practice. One of these is the need to (re)assess the occupational risks, particularly, biological risks. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this work is to promote guidance to occupational safety and health practitioners when conducting a biological risk assessment in this context. METHODS: The main steps of the biological risk assessment are explained with some inputs regarding the novelty posed by SARS-CoV-2 and an example of a qualitative risk assessment method is presented. Also, its application to two different activities was exemplified. RESULTS: In both cases, the assessment considered that vulnerable workers were working from home or in medical leave. The results showed low or medium risk level for the assessed tasks. For medium risk level, additional controls are advised, such maintain social distancing, sanitize instruments/equipment before use, use proper and well-maintained PPE (when applicable), and promote awareness sessions to spread good practices at work. Employers must be aware of their obligations regarding biological risk assessment and OSH practitioners must be prepared to screen and link the abundance of scientific evidence generated following the outbreak, with the technical practice. CONCLUSIONS: This paper could be an important contribution to OSH practice since it highlights the need to (re)assess occupational risks, especially biological risk, to ensure a safe return to work, providing technical guidance.

Making algorithms safe for workers: occupational risks associated with work managed by artificial intelligence

2021 ◽  
pp. 102425892110350
Author(s):  
Adrián Todolí-Signes
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Health Hazards ◽  
Risk Prevention ◽  
Occupational Risks ◽  
Technological Management

It is increasingly common for companies to use artificial intelligence mechanisms to manage work. This study examines the health hazards caused by these new forms of technological management. Occupational risks can be reduced if they are taken into account when programming an algorithm. This study confirms the need for algorithms to be correctly programmed, taking account of these occupational risks. In the same way as supervisors have to be trained in risk prevention to be able to perform their work, the algorithm must be programmed to weigh up the occupational risks – and when such features do not exist, steps must be taken to prevent the algorithm being used to direct workers. The algorithm must assess all (known) factors posing a risk to workers’ health and safety. It therefore seems necessary to incorporate a mandatory risk assessment performed by specialists in the programming of algorithms so that all ascertained risks can be taken into account.

scholarly journals Development of an Occupational Risk Assessment Tool for Laboratory Animal Facilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
April M. Clayton ◽  
James Hayes ◽  
George W. Lathrop ◽  
Nathaniel Powell
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Laboratory Animal ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Occupational Risk ◽  
Risk Assessment Tool ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
Occupational Risks ◽  
Risk Acceptability ◽  
Animal Care

Introduction: Laboratory animal facilities aim to provide excellence in animal care and welfare and support scientific research. Critical to these goals is to ensure a safe work environment for personnel comprising veterinary and animal care, laboratory research, and maintenance staff. Objective: Thus, performing occupational risk assessments allows for evaluation of risks from identified hazards associated with a variety of tasks ongoing in laboratory animal facilities. Methods: Herein, we present the development of an occupational risk assessment tool purposed to capture the dynamics of work performed in laboratory animal facilities, calculate and prioritize identified risks associated with procedures and processes, and inform and evaluate risk mitigations. Results: We also discuss a risk assessment for refining sharps use in nonhuman primate husbandry and care to demonstrate the utility of this tool to improve occupational safety in our animal facility. Conclusion: This tool and framework evolve into a holistic occupational risk management system that identifies, evaluates, and mitigates occupational risks; determines risk acceptability; consistently ensures communication and consultation with frontline personnel, stakeholders, senior leadership, and subject matter experts in biosafety, science, and animal care and welfare; and continuously strives to improve and enhance the operations of laboratory animal facilities.

scholarly journals Generalized graphic-analytical model for evaluation of the fatality / structural collapse production mechanism on a building affected by an explosion

2022 ◽  
Vol 354 ◽  
pp. 00033
Author(s):  
Gabriel Vasilescu ◽  
Attila Kovacs ◽  
Ciprian Jitea ◽  
Doru Anghelache ◽  
Florian Stoian
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Analytical Model ◽  
Explosive Charge ◽  
Quantitative Risk Assessment ◽  
Production Mechanism ◽  
Structural Collapse ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
Occupational Risks

The paper highlights the generalized grapho-analytical model of analysis and evaluation of the mechanism of occurrence of the event scenario for the production of fatality/structural collapse in the case of a building affected by explosion. This mathematical model is based on research results in the field of civil explosives for the technological/occupational risks estimation and assessment, as well as threats to the security of protected areas that may be vulnerable through acts of malice. The process of quantitative risk assessment associated with explosion phenomena as a result of the detonation of an explosive charge, allows estimating result indicators based on the use of algorithms and models specific to associated hazards, in order to model the effects and consequences of event scenarios.

scholarly journals TEACHING OF “CONTROL SYSTEMS OF HAZARDOUS AND HARMFUL FACTORS” WITH “THE LEGAL BASIS FOR CIVIL SECURITY” IN THE INSTITUTION BUILDING AND CIVIL SECURITY PROFILES (FOR SPECIALTY CONSTRUCTION AND CIVIL SECURITY)

2021 ◽  
pp. 78-84
Author(s):  
A.A. NESTER ◽  
O.V. ROMANISHYNA ◽  
L.O. MITIUK
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Industrial Safety ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Labor Protection ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Occupational Risks ◽  
Compulsory State

Problem statement. The article is aimed at determining the characteristics of the specialty, the presenceof problems in learning. The purpose of the article is to highlight the main problems associated with the production andthe process of mastering the profession. As the specialty is quite young, there are often no materials to master it byfuture specialists. We hope that we have managed to overcome these shortcomings. The training of future specialists intoday's changing conditions of production needs and employers poses new challenges to higher education, includinguniversities that train specialists in the field of civil security. The article is built in the classical style according to therequirements of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine to scientific articles. Purpose. The specialty is one ofthe most relevant and popular specialties of training and is focused primarily on training specialists who are able toensure effective implementation of labor protection policy, industrial safety and cooperation with state supervisoryauthorities in accordance with regulations and international standards. The specialty allows to acquire practical andspecialized knowledge and skills in the field of both technical and human sciences, related to the risks that arise in theprocess of work, methods of eliminating hazards, assessment of occupational risks, etc. Graduates can interpret the roleand place of a person in solving health and safety problems with all the consequences. Conclusions. The purpose of thespecialists in civil safety and labor protection is to implement the task of compulsory state social insurance againstaccidents at work and occupational diseases, including participation in ensuring the employer's preventive and othermeasures aimed at eliminating harmful and dangerous factors of production, prevention of accidents at work,occupational diseases and other cases of threat to the health of personnel caused by working conditions, and providingthe employer with practical assistance in constantly improving the forms and methods of preventive work in the field oflabor protection.

scholarly journals Managing occupational risks of greenhouse workers

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 00149
Author(s):  
Roman Chaplin ◽  
Svetlana Zhukova ◽  
Sergei Istomin ◽  
Sergey Fomin
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Reference System ◽  
Management System ◽  
Hazard Identification ◽  
Occupational Risk ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Labor Protection ◽  
Length Of Service ◽  
Occupational Risks ◽  
Agroindustrial Complex

The article analyzes the results of a study on the implementation of an information system for managing occupational risks at a protected ground agro-industrial complex enterprise. By using the author’s model of an automated information and reference system for assessing and controlling occupational risks, which contains the main elements of an occupational risk management system – a hazard identification block, an occupational risk analysis and assessment block, and an occupational risk management block, the company’s management builds a strategy to increase the efficiency of the labor protection management system, expanding its operational and functional capabilities. The amount of occupational risk is calculated according to the author’s method based on the information entered in the database of the automated information and reference system, according to such parameters as: health status, length of service, age, qualification of the employee, training in labor protection requirements and violation of labor protection requirements by a specific employee, category risk for identified industrial hazards. The introduction of an automated information and reference system for assessing occupational risks at the protected ground agroindustrial complex enterprise allowed not only to see possible risks, but also to accurately calculate their level, and to develop preventive measures to manage the identified risks.

scholarly journals Ensuring the safety of workers in underground electrical installations - professional risk assessment

2020 ◽  
Vol 305 ◽  
pp. 00029
Author(s):  
Georgeta Buică ◽  
Anca Elena Antonov ◽  
Constantin Beiu ◽  
Dragos Pasculescu ◽  
Remus Dobra
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Occupational Risks ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Workplace Accidents

Occupational risk assessment is a prevention tool used to manage safety and health at work in the national economy sectors of activity. Within the operation and maintenance in underground electrical installations, several major risk factors are identified, mainly due to work equipment cumulated with risk factors generated by the work environment and workload. To highlight the working conditions and the technical requirements of the underground electrical installations, the activity carried out for 50 years was analyzed, taking into account the lifespan of the electrical installations. Also, the events and accidents at work, the assessments of the risk in the workplace was analysed and represents a synthesis of research studies carried out so far. The research highlights the role of safety measures aimed to ensure the safety and health of workers working in underground electrical installations, mainly about work equipment and the means of work against electrocution to efficiently manage occupational risks and reduce workplace accidents and occupational disease, as well as technical events in electrical installations.

Official clarifications of labor protection specialists

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-21
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Insurance Fund ◽  
Labor Protection ◽  
Occupational Risks ◽  
Social Insurance Fund ◽  
The Social

Explanations of labor protection specialists on labor relations, as well as those related to the occurrence of occupational risks are presented. The specialists of the Fund tell how the expenses for the prevention of injuries and occupational diseases can be compensated for, what preventive measures can be spent on the funds of the Social Insurance Fund (hereinafter referred to as the FSS RF, the Fund).

Considering the Synergetic Effects at Occupational Risk Assessment in Oil Mines

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-94
Author(s):  
A.I. Fomin ◽  
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E.V. Nor ◽  
T.V. Grunskoy ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Synergetic Effect ◽  
Occupational Risk ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Synergetic Effects ◽  
Occupational Risks ◽  
Production Factors ◽  
Hazardous Production ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Negative Factors

The analytical review of labor conditions in the oil mines of the Yaregskoye field has demonstrated that the majority of work places (82 %) are considered hazardous, of subclass 3.1–3.3. The analysis of the basic process operations for high-viscosity oil production using the thermoshaft method has determined the combinations of hazardous production factors at work places. Studying the diversity of versions and combinations of negative factors and their complex impact on oil mine workers enabled detecting a synergetic effect that increases the risk of development of occupational diseases. It is established that for occupational risks assessment considering the potential interaction of hazardous production factors and their impact on personnel’s health is crucial. Today, the synergetic effects are not considered for occupational risk assessment in oil mines. Development of a methodological approach to occupational risk assessment including synergy is required. The suggested method is based on building up a mathematical model for occupational risk assessment with combined effects of negative factors that uses the combined effect coefficient considering the impact of synergetic effect. Comparing the data on labor conditions’ classes, occupational disease indices and obtained results, including the synergetic effects for the main underground occupations of the oil mines has demonstrated the bias approach for the earlier occupational assessment that neglected occupational risks to health in conditions of combined impact of negative factors. Within calculations, the significance of synergism math model for occupational risk assessment is confirmed.

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