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This guide emphasizes the importance of identifying hazards and risks by learning from past incidents, injuries, and diseases. It provides detailed principles, arguments, implementation strategies, and good practices to improve occupational safety and health (OSH) in workplaces. By focusing on preventive risk assessment and utilizing statistical data, businesses can create a safety culture, boost productivity, and reduce costs associated with accidents and downtime.
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Knowledge from incidents, injuries and diseases Knowledge frompreventive risk assessment 2 1 3 4 5 6 7 Identify hazards and risks
2 1 3 4 5 6 7 Knowledge from incidents, injuries and diseases Knowledge frompreventive risk assessment Identify hazards and risks
2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 PRINCIPLES
! PRINCIPLE Targeted action to improve OSH needs a reliable statistical fundamentand knowledge on causes!
! PRINCIPLE Think not only at fatalities or serious accidents! Think as well of minor accidents, small injuries, first aid cases, occupational diseasesand general illnesses!
! PRINCIPLE Support a safety culture in your workplace to get reports on near misses, unsafe conditions and unsafe behavior from your employees!
2 1 3 4 5 6 7 ARGUMENTS
Reporting Improve OSH at the workplaces Are the measures effective? Develop prevention programmes Add exposureand workplace data ARGUMENTS Circle of prevention Evaluate your data
? ARGUMENTS Levels of incidents and accidents • Complete reports on accidents and incidents are a sound basis for targeted prevention
? ARGUMENTS Each Euro invested in occupational safety and health generates a potential for increased commercial success of 2.20 Euro Data, causes and benchmarks are the basis to prove the need for improvement • Complete reports on accidents and incidents are a sound basis for targeted prevention
? ARGUMENTS Each Euro invested in occupational safety and health generates a potential for increased commercial success of 2.20 Euro Knowledge of complete incident rates enables to measure a short term and a long term process • Complete reports on accidents and incidents are a sound basis for targeted prevention
? ARGUMENTS Each Euro invested in occupational safety and health generates a potential for increased commercial success of 2.20 Euro Data, causes and benchmarks enable to identify success promising fields for improvement • Complete reports on accidents and incidents are a sound basis for targeted prevention
ARGUMENTS TOP 5 Accidents causes
? ARGUMENTS Each Euro invested in occupational safety and health generates a potential for increased commercial success of 2.20 Euro Knowledge of the real accident causes is a prerequisite for a targeted risk assessment • Complete reports on accidents and incidents are a sound basis for targeted prevention
2 1 3 4 5 6 7 IMPLEMENTATION
IMPLEMENTATION The road to identify hazards and risks by knowledge from incidents, injuries and diseases
IMPLEMENTATION Analyze current knowledge on incidents, injuries and diseases in your workplace (internal sight, benchmark with competitors, …)
IMPLEMENTATION Install standardized procedures and processes (reporting forms, reporting tools, employee questionnaires, cooperation with accident- or health insurances) to get knowledge
IMPLEMENTATION Collect facts (statistical data, reports, helpful information, …) showing the real situation on incidents, injuries and diseases in your mine
IMPLEMENTATION Include contractors and other external providers or suppliers in your procedures
IMPLEMENTATION Create regular reports from collected data (annual, monthly)
IMPLEMENTATION Include longtime benchmarks and benchmarks with competitors to estimate the actual development
IMPLEMENTATION Submit and discuss your reports with the CEO and mine managers
IMPLEMENTATION Discuss your reports in your OSH-committees, with workers rep’s and communicate results
2 1 3 4 5 6 7 GOOD PRACTICE
GOOD PRACTICE 2 1 3 4 5 6 7 Instant report on severe accidents
2 1 3 4 5 6 7 Knowledge frompreventive risk assessment Knowledge from incidents, injuries and diseases Identify hazards and risks
2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 PRINCIPLES
! PRINCIPLE Preventive risk assessementis not useless bureaucracy
! PRINCIPLE Preventive risk assessment is the central toolfor troublefree production and saves the health of employees
! PRINCIPLE Preventive risk assessment is not the obligation of experts or consultants – it is the obligation of the managers!
! PRINCIPLE To get a complete picture of the real risks,exployees shouldbe involved – experts can support!
2 1 3 4 5 6 7 ARGUMENTS
? ARGUMENTS In most countries, preventiverisk assessment is meanwhile a legal obligation
? ARGUMENTS It is proven that a systematic approach leads to higher success
? ARGUMENTS Preventive risk assessment is an ideal tool to involve workers and to communicate OSH
? ARGUMENTS Costs and downtime caused by accidents, diseases, unplanned events can be reduced
? ARGUMENTS Essential information is obtained systematically on… • hazards and occupational exposures • optimization potentials in workplaces • necessary technical and organizational protective measures • the required personal protective equipment • necessity and contents of instructions
? ARGUMENTS Improving working conditions by assessing their occupational risks improves the performance of the workplace… Each Euro invested in occupational safety and health generates a potential for increased commercial success of 2.20 Euro • Avoid loss time • Avoid business disruptions • Avoid penalties and insurance surcharges
2 1 3 4 5 6 7 IMPLEMENTATION
The road to identify hazards and risks by knowledge frompreventive risk assessment
Decide how (system, who, when updates) the preventive risk assessment will be carried out in your workplace
Produce a blueprint of your own risk assessment
Inform and provide trainingfor all involved managers and for the workforce on your methology
Take care that all workplace functions, jobs and risks are included
