Glossary
Occupational risk assessment. Operational aspect

Danger; hazard

Intrinsic property or capacity of a piece of equipment, a substance or a work method to cause damage to workers' health.

Risk; risk

Probability of occurrence of a health phenomenon in a given population over a given period of time.

Risk assessment

The process of comparing estimated risk with one or more decision criteria or decision aids.

Document unique d'évaluation des risques (DUER); single risk assessment document

Written transposition of the occupational risk assessment prescribed by the French Labor Code.

Kiviat diagram

The Kiviat, radar or spider web diagram is used to represent multivariate data sets on a two-dimensional plane. Each axis represents...