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Interactive risk assessment with the OiRA tool EU-OSHA – The OiRA Team

Risk Assessment OiRA OiRA

Structure

Risk Assessment

EU legal approach to health and safety; The hierarchy of prevention; The hierarchy of prevention; A practical approach - 5 steps; Reasons for not carrying out risk assessments regularly.

Structure

OiRA

The OiRA Project:

In Brief; Values; Goals; State of play; OiRA target audience; OiRA levels.

Structure

OiRA

The OiRA Community:

OiRA partners: National Level & EU Social Dialogue EU-OSHA support for OiRA partners; What EU-OSHA expects from OiRA partners.

The OiRA Promotion: The OiRA Promotion:

Materials at OiRA partners’ disposal;

New OiRA website: Private zone. The 7th OiRA Community Meeting; Communication Toolkit; Social Media; Pilot Projects.

EU-OSHA

EU-OSHA

• Who we are

One of more than 40 EU agencies; Governed by European law; Founded in 1996; Founded in 1996; Mostly financed from the general EU budget; Independent in the execution of its mission/tasks; A tripartite network organisation, closely linked to EU actors and national networks through the national focal points.

EU-OSHA

• Where we operate

Focal points (FOPs) in:

• EU member states;
• Candidate countries;
• EFTA countries.

Projects in:

• Western Balkan and Turkey –

Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA);

• 16 countries south and east of the

EU – European Neighbourhood Policy (EN).

*Map is valid as of 2014

EU-OSHA

• Priority areas and activities

Corporate video Corporate video

Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment

• EU legal approach to health and safety

Directive 89/391/EEC - OSH 'Framework Directive'

• All hazards and risks, workers, workplaces, employers.

Supported by more specific Directives

• Work equipment, work environment, specific hazards, specific worker

groups.

Legislation is central but not only instrument to prevention

Risk Assessment

• The hierarchy of prevention

Avoid & eliminate risks Reduce and minimise hazards AND separate from the workers

by technical measures; by organisational measures; by personal measures.

Improve safety behaviour

Risk Assessment

Step 1. Identify the hazards and those at risk Step 2. Evaluate and prioritise the Step 5. Monitor and review the

• A practical approach:

5 steps

risks Step 3. Decide on preventive actions Step 4. Take action! situation

Risk Assessment

• Reasons for not carrying out risk assessments regularly

Source: EU-OSHA ESENER-2 survey

https://oiraproject.eu/en/facts-and-figures-esener

OiRA

Project Community Promotion

The OiRA Project

The OiRA Project

• In Brief

Software + Free

Join Use Copy Develop Develop

Data protection

Sharing

The OiRA Project

• Values

The OiRA philosophy:

• Provision of free and open source software;
• More than a software, a diffusion model where social partners play a key

role; role;

• OiRA tools available to the end-users free of charge;
• Development of an OiRA community:
• Sharing tools (possibility to clone and translate/adapt tools from other

countries/sectors);

• Sharing of experiences/good practice.

The OiRA Project

• Goals

OiRA aims to:

• Contribute to the ‘development of simple tools to facilitate Risk

Assessment (RA)’ (Community Strategy 2007-2012);

• Develop and promote practical tools to help Micro and Small Enterprises

(MSEs) to put in place the RA process;

• Help demystify the RA process among MSEs;
• Build a critical mass of social partners (EU and national), governments,

public institutions interested in developing and disseminating RA tools tailored to the specificities and needs of European MSEs.

The OiRA Project

• State of play*

OiRA in numbers:

• 128 OiRA tools have been published, 28 are in progress and 63

sectors covered;

• The OiRA community is composed of 16 OiRA national partners and

14 EU sectoral social partners who develop EU tools for their sector;

• 44,167 accounts have been created since August 2011;
• 64,324 accumulated risk assessments have been carried out with OiRA

since August 2011;

• 80,328 guest accounts (test users) created since March 2016;
• 12,426 visits to OiRA website;

*up to 31 October 2017

The OiRA Project

• OiRA target audience:

National National Partners Partners

• 28

28 EU Member States + Norway, Iceland EU Member States + Norway, Iceland and and Liechtenstein + accession Liechtenstein + accession countries; countries;

• Public/National OSH

Public/National OSH Institutes; Institutes;

• Social

Social partners. partners.

• EU sectoral social partners (employers and

EU sectoral social partners (employers and workers); workers);

• OiRA tools cover more than 40 sectors.

OiRA tools cover more than 40 sectors.

EU Social EU Social Dialogue Dialogue Partners Partners Micro & Small Micro & Small Enterprises Enterprises (MSEs MSEs)

• Micro

Micro companies constituted more than companies constituted more than nine nine of out ten companies (92.4%) in the

• f out ten companies (92.4%) in the

non non-financial financial business sector of business sector of EU 28 EU 28 in 2013, in 2013, while while small enterprises accounted for 6.4 small enterprises accounted for 6.4%.* %.*

The OiRA Project

• OiRA levels:

EU EU-

• OSHA

OSHA (Facilitator Facilitator) )

Level 1

OiRA Community

OiRA content management system Level 2

MSEs MSEs (End End users users) ) MSEs MSEs (End End users users) )

Level 3

Intermediaries

Tools development

The OiRA Community

The OiRA Community

• OiRA partners: National Level
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Iceland
• Italy
• Latvia
• Cyprus
• Czechia
• France
• Finland
• Greece
• Lithuania
• Malta
• Portugal
• Slovenia
• Spain

The OiRA Community

• OiRA partners: EU Social Dialogue

The OiRA Community

• EU-OSHA support for OiRA partners

Translation Financial support Modules & examples Server & CMS maintenance OiRA Community Training & helpdesk Promotion strategies & products

The OiRA Community

• What EU-OSHA expects from OiRA partners

Development of instruments Involvement of social partners OiRA philosophy Promotion Expert validation Maintenance of the tools’ content

The OiRA Promotion

The OiRA Promotion

Materials at partners’ disposal:

OiRA website (Private zone) Publications Events/Meetings

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Social Media Audio-visual material

Events/Meetings Press Relations

Toolkit

The OiRA Promotion

Website

• Launched in January 2017
• Managed by EU-OSHA
• Available in 25 languages
• All OiRA tools by country,

language and sector

• Sections on MSEs and RA

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• Sections on MSEs and RA
• Facts and Figures

(ESENER-2)

• Promotional resources
• Monthly OiRA update.
• News items
• OSHmail OiRA section.
• OiRA community - Private zone
• National Partners / IRAT Network
• EU Sectoral Social Partners

The OiRA Promotion

Website - Private zone

Limited to OiRA community members; Partners’ profile viewing; Upload news, tools,

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Upload news, tools, promotional resources and strategic documents; Collaboration area; Access to partners’ ítems.

The OiRA Promotion

The 7th OiRA community meeting held in Brussels on 16 - 17 May 2017

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The OiRA Promotion

Communication Toolkit

• Tool

Tool 1 1 – Taglines Taglines

• Tool

Tool 2 2 – Pitch Pitch

• Tool

Tool 3 3 – Illustrations Illustrations / / Icons Icons

• Tool

Tool 4 4 – Infographics Infographics

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• Tool

Tool 5 5 – Videos Videos

• Tool

Tool 6 6 – Web Web – banners banners

• Tool

Tool 7 7 – Social Media Social Media Posts Posts

• Tool

Tool 8 8 – OiRA OiRA Communication Communication Guide Guide

• OiRA

OiRA Flyer Flyer

The OiRA Promotion

Examples

• Tool

Tool 3 3 – Illustrations Illustrations / / Icons Icons

Sectors Sectors

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Metasectors Metasectors

The OiRA Promotion

• Tool

Tool 4 4 – Infographics Infographics

EU EU Level Level

OiRA OiRA facts facts and figures and figures Risk Risk assessment with assessment with OiRA OiRA in 4 steps in 4 steps

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The OiRA Promotion

• Tool

Tool 5 5 – Videos Videos

EU EU Level Level Napo in…risk assessment online

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The OiRA Promotion

• Tool

Tool 6 6 – Web Web-banners banners

EU EU Level Level

• OiRA

OiRA Flyer Flyer

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National National Level Level Sectoral Sectoral Level Level

The OiRA Promotion

Social Media

• Posts

Posts

• Infographics

Infographics

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• Tools

Tools

• Official

Official Accounts Accounts

The OiRA Promotion

Examples

• Posts
• sts ready

ready to use (3 to use (3 levels levels) )

• Infographics

Infographics

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The OiRA Promotion

Examples

• Embedded

Embedded in in OiRA OiRA tools tools

• Official

Official Accounts Accounts Follow us!

https://twitter.com/eu_osha

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OiRA hashtag: #OiRAtools https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanAgencyforS afetyandHealthatWork https://www.linkedin.com/company/european- agency-for-safety-and-health-at-work https://www.youtube.com/user/EUOSHA https://www.flickr.com/photos/euosha/albums

The OiRA Promotion

Pilot Projects

National National & & Sectoral Sectoral Level evel

• Purpose:

Test the implementation of the promotion/communication toolkit on the field and measure impact/success; Rationalise resources (EU-OSHA role as facilitator);

• Steps:

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• Steps:

2017 (second half):

Selection of one pilot each at national and sectoral level; Discussion/agreement on the “products/actions” to be implemented; Adaptation of a communication/promotion plan to each pilot; Start implementation.

2018 (up to summer):

Continue implementation; Measure impact – evaluation; Decision of potential new pilots/further decisions.

To learn more about risk assessment tools visit our OiRA website at https://oiraproject.eu/en Explore and use all the OiRA tools available at https://oiraproject.eu/en/oira-tools Please spread the news and share our tools using the hashtag #OiRAtools

Thank you! EU-OSHA