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WORKPLACE LEVEL ILO International Safety and Health Conference - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
WORKPLACE LEVEL ILO International Safety and Health Conference - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
PARTICIPATIVE PSYCHOSOCIAL RISK ASSESSMENT FOR A HEALTHIER WORK ORGANISATION WHAT WE LEARNED AT THE WORKPLACE LEVEL ILO International Safety and Health Conference Dsseldorf, 18 October 2017 Risk Risk sour source ce Work Work organis
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Drivers: arena
Regulatory framework including compulsory address of psychosocial risks
- n the basis of risk assessment and improvement of working conditions;
including compulsory employers’ and workers’ reps participation
Enforcement of this regulation by authorities and trade unions
Mainstream approaches to psychosocial risks based on injury (medicalization
- f psychosocial risks) or on individual features (i.e. personality issues) instead
- f primary prevention: changing working conditions
Management reluctance to share power on work organisation issues Bureaucratic style (based on documents and formalities without factual changes of working conditions) Technocratic approach by OSH services (prevention without key actors participation) Commercial exploitation of psychosocial risk prevention
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Drivers: tools
Psychosocial risk prevention on the basis of adequate assessment method:
Focused on the measurement of working conditions with scientific evidence about relationship with health
Valid, reliable and standardized instruments Possibility to use psychosocial risk assessment tools that do not comply with technical and scientific standards
Covering as much as employment-related psychosocial exposures so same tool can be used to assess all jobs at company level Priorization without equity
Use of population reference values to have manageable short-term exposure goals Lack of limit exposure values
Present exposure problems as clearly identified and localized as possible Generic preventive measures which are useless
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Drivers: proceedings
RISK ASSESSMENT a) Agreement on the use of the methodology
- Presenting the method
- Signing the agreement
b) Preparing and carrying out the field work
- Adapting the questionnaire
- Designing the communication plan and the distribution, response and recollection of
questionnaires
- Implementing field work
c) Understanding results and agreeing on preventive measures
- Discussing risk assessment results
- Discussing and agreeing upon preventive measures
- Informing the staff
PLANNING OF PREVENTIVE ACTIVITIES d) Implementing preventive measures
- Planning of measures implementation (priorities, deadlines and resources needed)
- Informing the staff
- Follow-up of implementation
Conducting prevention processes based on step by step procedured protocol
Preventive processes re-invented in each company Prevention as a research process Conflict on prevention steps and who do what
Example: COPSOQ (ISTAS21, PSQCAT21) standardized process
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Drivers: actors
Key players on working conditions changes regarding work organisation should participate in the decision-making along the preventive process
Against sidecar model Long-lasting processes without progress
Managers and workers reps in a joint working team should lead the whole prevention process with the support of professionals
Technocratic approach to OSH issues
OSH professionals role is to build cooperation
Who is right, good/evil, blames
Workers/middle management direct participation needs to be:
- 1. Compulsory for the assessment phase and developed through individually
standardized, anonymous questionnaires Psychosocial risk exposures can not be observed
- 2. Optional for preventive measures and implementation design, using group
approach general and theoretical measures, incomprehension, imposition
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