The institution provides measuring services to monitor and document the impact on the workplace of chemical or biological factors, exposure to hazardous substances and elements such as noise or vibration.
The results of valid measurement provide a solid basis for monitoring preventive action and the need for improvements, for research projects on the impact of workplace exposures and for the setting of threshold limits. The results of measurements also provide a basis for fair compensation in the event of an insurance claim.
Guideline code
PREV_03900
Mechanism
Mechanism
- The management should aim for measuring activity to:
- Contribute systematically stored and evaluated data enabling the institution to gain insight to inform preventive action (e.g. intervention in hazardous work processes, improved prevention regulation) and to form a basis for fair compensation;
- Provide employers and managers with valuable feedback;
- Enable the institution to initiate preventive action in the workplace;
- Enable the institution to use the data for training purposes;
- Lead to the initiation of research projects;
- Lead to follow-up of the reporting of suspected occupational diseases, and to investigations of individual workplaces and of typical work processes where no individual data is available.
- Use the collected data for establishing a process of continuous improvement of the work-organization and working environment.
Structure
Structure
- The management should set up a measuring service to monitor and document the impact of factors such as hazardous substances, noise and vibration on the workplace in regular intervals.
- The management should collaborate with other national and international institutes or measuring services to pool their respective data.
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Guideline 30. Measuring services
Type
Guideline_1
Weight
43