Une nouvelle Norme internationale ISO 31000:2009, Management du risque – Principes et lignes directrices, aidera les organisations de tous types et de toutes tailles à gérer efficacement les risques. ISO 31000 fournit des principes, un cadre et des lignes directrices pour gérer toute forme de risque d'une manière systématique, transparente, et crédible dans quelque domaine et quelque contexte que ce soit.
En parallèle, l'ISO publie le Guide ISO 73:2009, Management du risque – Vocabulaire, qui complète ISO 31000 en fournissant un ensemble de termes et définitions dans le domaine
Source : http://www.iso.org/iso/fr/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1266
DOL verifies some of the workplace injury and illness data it collects from employers through OSHA’s audits of employers’ records, but these efforts may not be adequate. OSHA overlooks information from workers about injuries and illnesses because it does not routinely interview them as part of its records audits. OSHA annually audits the records of a representative sample of about 250 of the approximately 130,000 worksites in the high hazard industries it surveys to verify the accuracy of the data on injuries and illnesses recorded by employers. However, OSHA does not always require inspectors to interview workers about injuries and illnesses—the only source of data not provided by employers—which could assist them in evaluating the accuracy of the records. In addition, some OSHA inspectors reported they rarely learn about injuries and illnesses from workers since the records audits are conducted about 2 years after incidents are recorded. Moreover, many workers are no longer employed at the worksite and therefore cannot be interviewed. OSHA also does not review the accuracy of injury and illness records for worksites in eight high hazard industries because it has not updated the industry codes used to identify these industries since 2002. OSHA officials told GAO they have not updated the industry codes because it would require a regulatory change that is not currently an agency priority. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) also collects data on work-related injuries and illnesses recorded by employers through its annual Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII), but it does not verify the accuracy of the data. Although BLS is not required to verify the accuracy of the SOII data, it has recognized several limitations in the data, such as its limited scope, and has taken or is planning several actions to improve the quality and completeness of the SOII.
Source : http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d1010.pdf
Synthèse des connaissances
Le présent rapport a été produit en vue de fournir l'information la plus complète aux directions régionales de santé publique. Les sujets qui y sont abordés ont été identifiés selon les préoccupations ou inquiétudes soulevées par la population en matière de santé lors d‘audiences publiques ou lors de demandes d'informations adressées aux directions de santé publique, ou selon les problématiques potentielles perçues par les membres du comité. Ces sujets comprennent les effets sociaux et communautaires entourant l'implantation d'un parc éolien (chapitre 1), le bruit (chapitre 3), les infrasons et les sons de basses fréquences (chapitre 4), l'effet stroboscopique ou les ombres mouvantes (chapitre 5), les nuisances en phase de construction et la sécurité (chapitre 6) et les champs électromagnétiques (chapitre 7). Les chapitres 1 et de 3 à 7 sont généralement présentés selon la structure suivante : description de la situation, préoccupations pour la santé et résumé. Afin d'aider les intervenants dans la compréhension des notions générales liées au son, un aide-mémoire a été préparé et se trouve au chapitre 2.
Source : http://www.inspq.qc.ca/publications/notice.asp?E=p&NumPublication=1015
There are many risk assessment tools and methodologies available to help enterprises and organisations assess their health and safety risks. The choice of method will depend on workplace conditions, for example the number of workers, the type of work activities and equipment, the particular features of the workplace and any specific risks.
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.
The Agency has developed a risk assessment tools database with tools from all over Europe. The database is regularly updated.
Risk Assessment Tools can be searched for in various ways, including by the topic covered, by sector or by country.
Source : http://osha.europa.eu/en/practical-solutions/risk-assessment-tools/index_html
L'IRSST rend disponible des conférences présentées lors de son colloque annuel le 27 octobre dernier. Pour cette occasion, quelque 140 chercheurs, partenaires et intervenants SST se sont réunis autour de la thématique retenue cette année, soit le vieillissement de la main-d'oeuvre.
Source : http://www.irsst.qc.ca/files/documents/PubIRSST/Colloque-IRSST-2009.pdf
Le secteur de l'aide à domicile recouvre des activités très variées. Sa particularité est son lieu d'exercice, des domiciles privés. La mise en oeuvre d'actions de prévention des risques professionnels présente de nombreux intérêts : rendre le métier plus attractif, améliorer la qualité et la continuité des prestations, diminuer le nombre d'accidents du travail et des maladies professionnelles. Tous les acteurs (bénéficiaires de l'aide, intervenants, responsables) ont un rôle à jouer.
Source: http://www.inrs.fr/dossiers/AideDomicile.html
Selon les résultats de l’enquête SUMER menée en 2003, les personnels soignants non médicaux des hôpitaux (principalement infirmiers et aides-soignants), très majoritairement féminins, se distinguent nettement de l’ensemble des salariés par un cumul de contraintes horaires et organisationnelles. Ils signalent plus souvent que les autres salariés manquer de moyens matériels et devoir travailler dans l’urgence, notamment dans le secteur public. Ils sont également fréquemment exposés à diverses contraintes physiques. Plus que les autres salariés en contact avec le public, les personnels soignants sont exposés aux risques d’agression verbale et/ou physique. Du fait d’une demande psychologique élevée, ces personnels vivent plus souvent des situations de « jobstrain », susceptibles d’affecter leur santé.
Les infirmières et aides-soignantes sont plus exposées que les autres salariés à certains produits chimiques cancérogènes et aux radiations. Les risques biologiques au contact des patients et les risques d’accidents d’exposition au sang sont aussi caractéristiques de ces métiers.
Source : http://www.travail-solidarite.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/2009-10-41-4-2.pdf
The Revitalising Health and Safety strategy statement, launched in June 2000, set three national targets for improving health and safety performance by 2010:
• to reduce the incidence rate of fatalities and major injuries by 10%;
• to reduce the incidence rate of cases of work-related ill health by 20%;
• to reduce the number of working days lost per worker from work-related injury and ill health by 30%;
and to achieve half the improvement under each target by 2004.
The best OHS advice, or rather innovative thinking, is frequently coming from those experts from outside the traditional OHS background.
A case in point could be a presentation made by prominent Australian demographer, Bernard Salt, at one of the many Safe Work Australia Week events in South Australia. Salt provided enough information about population changes that OHS professionals and regulators became uneasy about many of the challenges that they will face in the next few decades.
Source: http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/the-demographic-challenges-facing-ohs-management/
At the occasion of the celebration of 125 years of labour inspection in Austria, the Austrian Minister for Labour, Social affairs, and Consumer Protection, Mr. Hundstorfer, presented a resolution regarding the national occupational safety and health strategy. In this resolution, all national actors endeavour to support all efforts in occupational safety and health despite the current economic crisis and its effects.
Source: http://osha.europa.eu/en/news/125-years-of-labour-inspection?sourceid=rss
The yearbook of the German Social Accident Insurance describes the prevention measures taken in the last two years in order to improve OS&H in plants and educational establishments.
Source: http://www.dguv.de/inhalt/praevention/praev_lohnt_sich/jahrbuch/jahrbuch_engl.pdf
Cleaning is carried out in every workplace. In some industries, such as the food and catering sectors, poor cleaning can cause a business to fail. Cleaning is an essential task and, when done well, it can reduce both costs to the company and the risks to workers' safety and health by, for example, extending the life of workplace equipment and keeping floor surfaces in good condition. Sadly though, cleaning tasks have a bad image as it is a task associated with dirt and waste; workers are sometimes looked down on and their work taken for granted.
Source: http://osha.europa.eu/en/publications/reports/TEWE09006ENC
Fact sheet 86 : Preventing harm to cleaning workers
While injury rates have been calculated and reduced in the waste and recycling industry in recent years (HSE Research Report 701), little is known about the prevalence of ill health for this industry. The main objective of this project was to review sickness absence data for the industry and provide estimates of the occupational ill health rate and the annual number of days absent from work.
Source: http://news.hse.gov.uk/2009/10/22/rr750-review-of-sickness-absence-data-in-the-waste-and-recycling-industry/?rss=
The purpose of this report was to provide an overview of the most important issues related to occupational safety and health for cleaning workers, to highlight the main trends and issues regarding the working conditions, hazard exposure and health outcomes, to identify gaps in knowledge and information available, and to formulate recommendations for future studies.
Source: http://osha.europa.eu/en/publications/literature_reviews/cleaning_workers_and_OSH
The HSE need meaningful ‘leading indicators' that provide a real-time measure of progress in reducing long latency occupational disease. This report provides a review of potential leading indicators for long latency occupational disease.
Source: http://news.hse.gov.uk/2009/10/20/rr734-leading-indicators-for-assessing-reduction-in-risk-of-long-latency-diseases/?rss=Research
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