3. Risk assessment process and choice of tools
Managing activities in a way that protects the health and safety of employees means making preventive, protective or precautionary decisions in a context of uncertainty. The risk assessment process and its results, which come after the upstream risk avoidance phase, will provide the employer with information to help him/her make decisions, and in particular to enable him/her to prioritize risk situations and the resulting action planning. This assessment process comprises several stages, which we will now describe in detail.
3.1 Focus on the risk assessment process
The implementation of the risk assessment process follows on from the organization phase of the risk assessment approach. This process is crucial to risk prevention performance. The way in which...
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Standards and norms
- Risk management – Guidelines. - NF ISO 31000 - Juin 2018
- Risk management – Risk assessment guidelines. - FD X50-252 - Février 2006
- Machine safety – General design principles – Risk assessment and risk reduction. - NF EN ISO 12100 - Décembre 2010
- Occupational health and safety management systems – Requirements and guidelines for their use. - ISO 45001 :2018 - Mars 2018
Regulations
Council Directive 89/391/EEC of June 12, 1989 on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers at work.
Law no. 91-1414 of December 31, 1991 amending the Labor Code and the Public Health Code to promote occupational risk prevention and transposing European directives on occupational health and safety.
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