Assessing Risky Behaviors Based on the Indicator Analysis of Statistics on Accidents at Work

Grodzicka, Aneta

doi:10.2478/mspe-2023-0043

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“…The overall costs of occupational accidents and diseases are often much higher than initially perceived at the organizational level. Organizations need to increase their investment in occupational safety and health including safety culture, thereby aiming to reduce both the direct and indirect costs while lowering insurance premiums and absenteeism and improving worker performance, productivity, and morale [45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54].…”

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Research on Occupational Risk Assessment for Welder Occupation in Romania

Pirvu,

Rontescu,

Bogatu

et al. 2024

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The ever-increasing needs of the working population have led to the development of various branches of industry, an increase in the number of employees, and a rise in the number of work-related accidents. The welder occupation is one of the most sought after occupations in Europe, according to the EURopean Employment Services (EURES) statistics. Taking into account the work system in which welders conduct their activity (uncomfortable working positions, splashes, high temperatures, mechanical factors, gases and fumes, magnetic fields due to electric current), the paper presents the risk factors identified for the welder occupation, based on the occupational injury and illness risk assessments. Following the analysis of 25 risk assessments, carried out by the assessment team that must include qualified evaluators, process specialists, the workers’ representative, occupational health and safety responsible at various industrial economic agents, a total of 70 main risk factors of occupational accidents and diseases were identified for the welder occupation. Risk factors were classified according to four main work components: worker, workload, work environment, and means of production. To reflect the importance of the identified risk factor, the number of organizations that considered that the risk was likely to occur but also the possibility that the risk was above the acceptable limit, calculated using the National Institute for Research and Development for Labor Protection “Alexandru Darabont” (INCDPM) method, a method often used in Romania, was identified from the analyzed assessments. Finally, a prevention and protection plan was drawn up with regard to the risks identified for the welder occupation, the final aim of which was to respectively reduce the probability of occurrence with the severity of the risks identified.

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