Universidade Nova Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica e Industrial, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal.
Risk Anal. 2013 Mar;33(3):409-19. doi: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01898.x. Epub 2012 Sep 28.
In work environments, the main aim of occupational safety risk assessment (OSRA) is to improve the safety level of an installation or site by either preventing accidents and injuries or minimizing their consequences. To this end, it is of paramount importance to identify all sources of hazards and assess their potential to cause problems in the respective context. If the OSRA process is inadequate and/or not applied effectively, it results in an ineffective safety prevention program and inefficient use of resources. An appropriate OSRA is an essential component of the occupational safety risk management process in industries. In this article, we performed a survey to elicit the relative importance for identified OSRA tasks to enable an in-depth evaluation of the quality of risk assessments related to occupational safety aspects on industrial sites. The survey involved defining a questionnaire with the most important elements (tasks) for OSRA quality assessment, which was then presented to safety experts in the mining, electrical power production, transportation, and petrochemical industries. With this work, we expect to contribute to the main question of OSRA in industries: "What constitutes a good occupational safety risk assessment?" The results obtained from the questionnaire showed that experts agree with the proposed OSRA process decomposition in steps and tasks (taxonomy) and also with the importance of assigning weights to obtain knowledge about OSRA task relevance. The knowledge gained will enable us, in the near future, to build a framework to evaluate OSRA quality for industrial sites.
在工作环境中，职业安全风险评估（OSRA）的主要目的是通过预防事故和伤害或尽量减少其后果来提高设施或场所的安全水平。为此，识别所有危险源并评估其在相应环境中造成问题的潜力至关重要。如果 OSRA 过程不充分和/或不能有效地应用，它将导致安全预防计划无效和资源利用效率低下。适当的 OSRA 是工业职业安全风险管理过程的重要组成部分。在本文中，我们进行了一项调查，以确定识别出的 OSRA 任务的相对重要性，从而深入评估与工业现场职业安全相关的风险评估的质量。该调查涉及定义一个带有 OSRA 质量评估最重要元素（任务）的问卷，然后将其呈现给矿业、电力生产、运输和石化行业的安全专家。通过这项工作，我们希望能回答工业中 OSRA 的主要问题：“什么构成了良好的职业安全风险评估？”问卷调查的结果表明，专家们同意所提出的 OSRA 流程分解为步骤和任务（分类法），并同意为获得有关 OSRA 任务相关性的知识分配权重的重要性。获得的知识将使我们能够在不久的将来构建一个用于评估工业现场 OSRA 质量的框架。
