... Overview Effective and efficient safety programs rely upon accurate and consistent risk assessments. Underestimate risk, and our safety and health programs become ineffective, as employees whose risk was underestimated continue to perform their duties with the risks unabated. Overestimate risk...

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... An Overview of Risk Assessment and the Importance of the Process This paper will focus on deploying a risk assessment process to reduce risk and effectively minimize incidents. Safety professionals need to move away from purely conducting hazard identification and implementing corrective...

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... Introduction The declining health status of today's workforce has decreased the predictive value of risk assessment practices in Occupational Health and Safety (OHS), and has contributed to an emerging issue threatening workforce safety. Common risk assessment practices used across industries...

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... and opportunities alike have been experienced. Data collected from over 60,000 risk assessments has provided a rich opportunity to tease out leading indicators of both performance and quality of risk reduction programs. The strategy that our company has adopted to deal with infrequent yet severe incident outcomes...

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... we don't find many companies with strong centralized safety management, well developed and implemented top down instructions and sufficiently funded and staffed safety departments. I do believe that the vision of pro-active risk assessment is now being recognized as the way toward an achievable...

... Introduction Many companies have embraced the importance of conducting risk assessments as a good safety practice; while others still rely on the findings of incident investigations and regulations to approach risk reduction. Unfortunately, doing the latter can have numerous ‘blind spots...

.... This is known as risk assessment, and should be regularly carried out for best results. Identifying the appropriate mitigation measure and implementing the same to control risks is also a significant part of risk assessment. This could be based on past experience and emerging safety observations, followed...

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... in identifying new or improved methodologies able to effectively manage the risks associated with transit in all sectors. The objective of this paper is to present a model that manages the road-traffic accidents, through the implementation and development of an integrated risk assessment and management system...

... Introduction Many companies have embraced the importance of conducting risk assessments as a good safety practice; while others still rely on the findings of incident investigations and regulations to approach risk reduction. Unfortunately, doing the latter can have numerous ‘blind spots...

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