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HomePeer Review on the “Use of web-based tools for OSH risk assessment” Dublin, Ireland, 2-3 October 2017
Checklists, an established Swedish e-tool for companies in many high-risk sectors : peer country comments paper Sweden
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In Sweden as in other EU Member States, risk assessment is a core activity in occupational safety and health (OSH) management. In the Swedish Work Environment Act (SFS 1977:1160) and in most of the around 80 Swedish OSH provisions and especially in the most recent ones, risk assessment is mentioned as one of the principal requirements. In the provisions, short guidance may be included on how to conduct risk assessments. One of the main provisions, AFS 2001:1 about systematic work environment management includes a requirement for engaging experts in the OSH management, if the OSH competence, e.g. regarding risk assessment, in the organisation is not sufficient. Even if risk assessment is essential in the OSH management, there is little public debate about risk assessment. However, it is primarily the responsibility of the company to decide whether their OSH competence is sufficient. The provisions are issued by the Swedish Work Environment Authority (SWEA). However, apart from the short guidance included in the provisions and general information about risk assessment and OSH management, SWEA provides only limited support on how to conduct risk assessment and have no e-tools for this purpose. This is mainly due to “the Swedish model”, where the authority draws up the provisions and the social partners provide guidance to their members on how to fulfil the requirements in the provisions. The guidance provided by the social partners is usually adapted to specific sectors. For this purpose, the social partners have jointly owned organisations (Prevent and Suntarbetsliv), who develop different kinds of material aimed at supporting the workplaces. When risk assessment is mentioned in Sweden, it is often in relation to the publication and dissemination of new advice on OSH which may include, but not solely focus on, risk assessment (e.g. for a specific sector).
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- Corporate author(s): Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (European Commission)
- Personal author(s): Antonsson, Ann-Beth
- Themes: Workers' health and safety
- Subject: accident prevention , business policy , directive (EU) , Internet , Ireland , occupational safety , report , risk management , small and medium-sized enterprises , Sweden
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| ISSN | ISBN 978-92-76-22151-7 | DOI 10.2767/417592 | Catalogue number KE-04-20-522-EN-N |
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