In past years I’ve written about the value of the ANSI B11 standards and risk assessment. Those blogs were focused on describing the “what” and “why.” After recently concluding a class with a couple of safety pros and larger group …
Recently I’ve done dozens of Task Based Risk Assessments (TaBRA) for clients and the experience always reinforces for me the importance of worker input and the relative speed in which an assessment can be performed.
Simply put, risk assessment prioritizes the safety hazards in a workplace according to their severity and likelihood of occurrence.
When assessing the safety risks of a work task, the devil is in the details, and who knows the details better than the employees who perform the task.
The goal of this blog post is to whet the appetite of those who may not be sufficiently familiar with ANSI B11, the series of U.S. national standards dealing with the safety requirements for general industry machines.
At the recent ASSE Conference in Las Vegas there were two issues that seemed to be moving to the front burner: Risk assessment and sustainability.
When I work with clients, I always use Task Based Risk Assessment (TaBRA). Last August I wrote about how the methodology was instrumental in OSHA vacating a lockout citation. But the method is helpful in many situations, including: Deciding if …