#Risk assessment
Assessment of occupational risks in production: danger identification methods, root cause analysis, and development of compensatory measures. Contains cases on transferring from reactive accident investigations to proactive threat prediction and mitigation, and tools for their digitalization.
Occupational Risk Assessment: A Crucial Element of the HSE Management System
Occupational risk level assessment allows employers to systematically influence the creation of safe working conditions and the preservation of workers' health. The article explains why involving the organization's own employees helps to move away from a formal approach and make this procedure a "live" mechanism for ensuring safety. Constant monitoring and feedback from personnel allow timely adjustments to risk reduction measures.
Focus on Risks: A Practical Approach That Changes Safety Culture
The article tells about the project "Focus on Risks" — a practical training system that helps shift attention from responding to incidents to preventing them. Using a three-step algorithm, employees learn to notice, assess, and eliminate workplace hazards before they lead to accidents. The use of this approach turns compliance with safety rules from a formality into a daily work habit and helps form a sustainable safety culture.
Safety Barometer
The article is dedicated to the experience of Bystrinsky GOK in implementing a monthly occupational health and safety rating of departments, which allows for an objective evaluation of their preventive work. The material details the calculation methodology and specific evaluation criteria combining proactive and reactive indicators in a 70 to 30 ratio. The presented approaches will help adapt a balanced evaluation system and motivation mechanisms to the practices of one's own enterprise.
Development of an Electronic Risk Register through the Improvement of HSE Tools
Integration of disconnected mobile and desktop occupational safety applications into a unified electronic risk register. Implementation of root cause analysis functionality and automatic selection of additional PPE based on identified occupational risks.
Measures to Eliminate Risks When Working at Height
A comprehensive approach to reducing risks when working at height, including organizing a ladder testing area, implementing anchor systems, and creating a training ground. The practice aims to eliminate the use of faulty equipment, ensure continuous fall protection, and develop practical evacuation skills.
Method of Organizing and Controlling the Safety of Production Processes at a Coal Mine
A commission-based methodology for assessing personnel reliability across four criteria, assigning a color category. Integration of assessment results into an automated work order system to block unreliable workers from dangerous processes.
Dynamic Risk Assessment: The Key to Safe Work Execution
The article is dedicated to dynamic risk assessment (DRA) — an operational paperless assessment performed before starting and during work to identify and prevent hazard factors. The material examines the algorithm for conducting the assessment based on the traffic light principle, as well as common employee mistakes when analyzing threats. The publication contains recommendations for the effective implementation of DRA at the site for transitioning to conscious safe behavior and protecting worke...
Perfect is the Enemy of Good
The article is devoted to the practice of applying the Kaizen concept and rationalization ideas at Russian hazardous production facilities. The author explains why Federal Law No. 116-FZ and invention patents do not grant the right to unauthorizedly alter equipment design contrary to established requirements. The material helps to understand the legal restrictions of lean production and to prevent dangerous errors under the guise of continuous improvement.
Using Checklists: Making the Complex Simple
Checklists in the field of occupational health and safety and industrial safety allow for systematizing control and minimizing human error, turning the complex process of safety assessment into a sequence of clear steps. Thanks to a unified methodology, such a tool becomes a guide for both beginners and experienced specialists, preventing important parameters from being missed under tight time constraints. The use of clear and practical inspection algorithms simplifies internal audits, reduces t...
"Confined Spaces" Procedure
The article is dedicated to practical experience in applying the "Work in Confined Spaces" procedure at an enterprise. The author describes key steps to increase its effectiveness, including conducting an inventory of facilities, assessing risks using a checklist, preparing a mobile safety kit, and in-person employee training. Attention is also paid in the material to appointing a supervising occupational health and safety specialist, regular audits, and annual practice of evacuation skills.
Risk Management Methods Vary: Identifying and Eliminating Hazardous Production Situations
Risk management methodology through proactive identification and elimination of hazardous production situations (HPS) before they become incidents. Includes involving personnel in threat registration, maintaining a unified register, planning corrective actions, and multi-level execution control.
Standard Operating Procedure
A standard operating procedure (SOP) records step-by-step procedures for performing operations, occupational health and safety requirements, and risk mitigation measures to ensure work safety and quality. Using JSC Rosatom Steklovolokno as an example, the article examines the stages of SOP development, hazard identification rules, and criteria for selecting priority operations. The material demonstrates how the document helps prevent incidents and train personnel, serving as an effective tool fo...