Creating a risk assessment in the workplace is a fundamental step in our work.
A risk assessment at work is a fundamental document in occupational safety and health. It serves as the basis for implementing workplace safety rules, preventive measures, organizing and carrying out work processes and production procedures, and taking other actions to prevent and reduce workers' exposure to identified risks. The goal is to minimize the likelihood of injuries or illnesses and to ensure a higher level of occupational safety throughout all levels of work organization and management.
FOR EMPLOYERS WHO WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT CREATING A WORKPLACE RISK ASSESSMENT:
Creating a workplace risk assessment is a necessary step to properly approach health and safety management in your company. If this step is not done correctly, it will be difficult to systematically and efficiently identify risks and subsequently implement appropriate preventive measures.
A Risk Assessment is a Fundamental Document in Occupational Safety and Health
Based on a risk assessment at work, safety rules are applied, preventive measures are implemented, work and production procedures, as well as methods, are organized and carried out, and other activities are taken to prevent and reduce workers' exposure to identified risks. The goal is to minimize the likelihood of injuries or illnesses and to ensure a higher level of occupational safety throughout all levels of work organization and management. The workplace risk assessment must be written or in electronic form, correspond to existing occupational risks, and be available to workers at the workplace.
Typical measures resulting from each workplace risk assessment include:
If you want to learn more about how risk assessment is viewed at the European Union level, visit the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work website.
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Does every legal entity need a workplace risk assessment?
No, only those legal entities that are employers – meaning those who employ at least one person who is not a member of the management, owner, etc. It doesn't matter whether you are a company, sole proprietorship, school, association, etc. All legal entities that are employers are required to take care of occupational safety and health.
How long is a workplace risk assessment valid?
Once a workplace risk assessment is done, it is permanent. However, the assessment must always be up-to-date. This means that the assessment needs to be periodically updated based on the following circumstances: changes in existing locations or the opening of new ones, the introduction of new job positions, the introduction of new work processes and technologies, the hiring of new personnel, etc.
We had a risk assessment for a j.d.o.o., and now we are a d.o.o. – do we need to create a new risk assessment?
If everything else remains the same and the existing d.o.o. is the successor to the j.d.o.o. (meaning the employees are the same, work processes are the same, locations are the same), there is no need for a new risk assessment.
An employer is obliged, taking into account the tasks and their nature, to assess risks to the life and health of workers and persons at work, especially regarding work equipment, the work environment, technology, physical hazards, chemicals, or biological agents used, the organization of the workplace, the organization of work processes, the monotony of work, static and psychophysiological stress, work with imposed rhythm, work according to performance in a set time (standardized work), night work, mental workload, and other present risks, for the purpose of preventing or reducing risks.
Risk assessments can be carried out by authorized persons or by the employer for their own needs. In the process of risk assessment, the person conducting it (authorized person or the employer themselves) and workers or their representative (workers' trustee) participate. The risk assessment process consists of:
- collecting data at the workplace
- analyzing and assessing collected data, which includes identifying hazards, harmful factors, and efforts; assessing hazards, harmful factors, and efforts; determining measures to eliminate or reduce the level of hazards, harmful factors, and efforts
- a plan of measures to eliminate or reduce the level of hazards, harmful factors, and efforts, including deadlines, responsible persons for implementing the measures, and a method of monitoring the implementation of measures
- documenting the risk assessment
Specialist for this service is:
Tomislav Nimac
Senior expert for occupational safety
+385 (1) 28 52 117
+385 95 802 71 73
tomislav.nimac@anparo.hr
