The institution bases its prevention services on a systemic approach to risk assessment and promotes it as a general requirement for any insured activity by its members. It supports all members to carry out efficient risk assessment and provides them with an incentive to integrate it into daily operations.
Guideline code
PREV_03800
Mechanism
Mechanism
- The management should seek cooperation with state labour inspectors in order to promote the same prevention principles (e.g. risk assessment) when conducting on-site visits.
- Prevention experts should make every effort to motivate and support employers and business managers to carry out and document comprehensive risk assessment.
- Prevention experts should always work with up-to-date risk assessment documentation and ensure that the latest standards are being put into practice.
- Prevention experts should attend specific training on effective and high-quality risk assessment. These courses could be offered by an in-house training unit of the social security institution.
- The management should ensure that any prevention rule, regulation or guideline published by the institution in print or electronically contains a section on effective risk assessment.
Structure
Structure
- The board should recognize the benefits of risk assessment and ensure that it is part of the institution’s prevention programme.
- The board should ensure that risk assessment is included as a requirement in every business and workplace, as part of the statutory occupational safety and health framework.
- The management should initiate the design of practical manuals and aids to assist members in their prevention efforts. The prevention experts may use manuals as guidelines for verification and quality assurance during on-site visits.
Title HTML
Guideline 29. Risk assessment
Type
Guideline_1
Weight
42