Safety Risk Management
"Every employer must ensure the health and safety of all workers..... remedy any workplace conditions that are hazardous .... ensure that workers are made aware of all known or reasonably foreseeable hazards" - Workers Compensation Act of British Columbia
Services
- Identify safety problems and issues; identify legislative, strategic and operational criterion for occupational health and safety; identify hazards, risk events and risk outcomes; assess current safety culture, policy, procedures and practices for managing safety; analyse intrinsic and residual risks; identify the 'Hierarchy of Control'.
- Conduct a preliminary risk assessment of the workplace by establishing a industry-specific structure for the identification of risk areas and risk issues, and eliciting knowledge and information from the strategic, operational and project levels of the organization.
- Develop the scope for an ergonomic risk assessment of the workplace by establishing the legislative and strategic Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) criterion for accepting ergonomic risk, reviewing pertinent information (e.g. incident reports, workers compensation claims and industry statistics on injuries and mechanisms of injury), using surface electromyography to measure the static, median and peak muscle loadings associated with work postures, using the Ovako Work Analysis System (OWAS) and Rapid Upper Body Assessment (RULA) to survey awkward work postures, and performing a fitting trial for proposed workplace changes to accomodate employees' ergonomic requirements.
- In consultataion with employees, develop a risk registry to be used at the operational or project level that is implemented and supported by the principles of behaviour based safety.
- In-services for the development of participatory ergonomics within the workplace.