Why Risc Assessment?
With Open Source and Plone Syslab.com supports Germany and EU in the distribution of crucial information about Risk Assessment.
Why is risk assessment so important?
Every year 5,720 people die in the European Union as a consequence of
work-related accidents, according to EUROSTAT figures. Besides that, the
International Labour Organisation estimates that an additional 159,500 workers
in the EU die every year from occupational diseases. Taking both figures into
consideration, it is estimated that every three-and-a-half minutes somebody in
the EU dies from work-related causes. Most of these accidents and diseases are
preventable, and the first step in preventing them is risk assessment.
That is the message of "Healthy Workplaces. Good for you. Good for business." the Europe-wide information campaign on risk assessment, launched by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA). The campaign focuses especially on high-risk sectors such as construction, healthcare and agriculture, and on the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises. It will run over two years (2008-09).
Under EU law, all employers in the EU are required to carry out risk
assessments. Risk assessment helps employers understand the action they need to
take to improve workplace health and safety.
Syslab.com supports information on
risk assessment
Based on Open Source and the Plone Content Management Platform, Syslab.com builds solutions to effectively disseminate important information on risk assessment. A central database on EU level as well as a localised German solution allow companies to effectively search for common and specific action guidelines and checklists to support their own risk assessment.
More information about risk assessment and how Syslab.com supports this EU wide campaign will follow.
See also:
http://osha.europa.eu/en/campaigns/hw2008/why
http://osha.europa.eu/en/campaigns/hw2008/campaign
http://osha.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/reducing-work-related-accidents
