Risk Assessment for Occupational Safety and Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Occupational Safety and Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 17354
Special Issue Editors
Interests: occupational risk assessment; management of occupational risks; accident analysis; accident prevention; safety engineering; collective protections; innovation; workplace interventions; construction engineering; fall prevention and protection
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Interests: safety engineering; risk assessment; risk management; industrial ergonomics; industrial hygiene; occupational health; accident costs; human engineering; mining project
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Interests: health and safety; risk assessment; building construction; work site; risk perception; emotional state
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Work activities bring about a large number of risks, possibly leading to serious, very serious or fatal accidents, which can generate permanent economic, material and, most importantly, human losses. In some work activities, due to their complexity, several risks can be present simultaneously and, when combined, these risks can have more severe consequences than those resulting from the sum of the effects resulting from the risks considered individually. Reducing work accidents is a priority objective in the productive, economic and, fundamentally, social spheres. Consequently, accident prevention through a risk identification and assessment is essential, as it makes it possible to plan their elimination or, at the very least, reduce their risk to acceptable levels, minimizing the damage they can cause. There are several methods of occupational risk assessments, ranging from a general analysis to a specific risk analysis. However, there are also situations where there is a combination of risks and, in these cases, the methodologies must simultaneously consider several risks of different types. Therefore, on these occasions, an analysis with a global focus is required, including different perspectives and techniques for combating risks in the fields of occupational safety, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, psychosociology or occupational medicine.
We are pleased to invite you to present works with the goal of advancing the knowledge of different methodologies for evaluating risks applicable in occupational fields.
This Special Issue aims to study existing and present newly created risk assessment methodologies, and will involve risk analyses, the design of methodologies, the definition of new user-friendly approaches (matrices or others), the adaptation and application to different areas, the verification of reliability and reproducibility and the validation of these methodologies, also accepting case studies using new global multidisciplinary risk assessment methodologies.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome, research areas including (but not limited to) the following:
- Qualitative risk assessment methods;
- Quantitative risk assessment methods;
- Semi-quantitative risk assessment methods;
- Design of risk assessment methodologies;
- Adaptation of risk assessments to different areas;
- Design of risk matrices;
- Reliability and validation of risk assessment methodologies.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. María de las Nieves González García
Dr. João dos Santos Baptista
Dr. Antonio José Carpio de los Pinos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- consistency
- methodology
- risk assessment
- occupational safety and health
- reliability
- reproducibility
- risk assessment matrix
- stability
- work accidents
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