by Jbs112209 b3 — November 27, 2009—At the close of its two-year-long Healthy Workplaces Campaign on risk assessment, the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) gave a preview of its free Online Risk Assessment (ORA) tool, which the organization says will make it much easier for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to assess their health and safety risks.
EU-OSHA currently offers a searchable, regularly updated Risk Assessment Tools database that contains tools from all over Europe.
The organization says the most common risk assessment tools are checklists, which are a useful tool to help identify hazards. Other kinds of risk assessment tools include: guides, guidance documents, handbooks, brochures, questionnaires, and “interactive tools” (free interactive software, including downloadable applications which are usually sector-specific). These tools can be either generic or branch/risk-specific, explains EU-OSHA.
