Risk Assessment & Evaluation

KEMA possesses experienced resources to perform risk assessments and record and evaluate changes in work practices

Workplace fatalities, injuries and illnesses remain worldwide at unacceptably high levels and involve an enormous and unnecessary health burden, suffering, and economic loss amounting up to 5% of the GDP. Accordingly one estimates approximately 2 million work-related deaths per year worldwide.

Modern occupational safety and health legislation usually demands that a risk assessment be carried out prior to making an intervention. It should be kept in mind that risk management requires risk to be managed to a level which is as low as is reasonably practical. The assessment should:
- identify the hazards
- identify all affected by the hazard and how
- evaluate the risk
- identify and prioritize the required actions.

KEMA possesses experienced resources to perform assessments, record and review them periodically and whenever there is a significant change to work practices. The assessment includes practical recommendations to control the risk. Once recommended controls are implemented, the risk should be re-calculated to determine of it has been lowered to an acceptable level. Generally speaking, newly introduced controls should lower risk by one level.