Rapid Risk Assessment in Industry: Increasing Awareness of Worker Safety in Industrial Activities

When training engineers and team leaders, it is crucial to focus on cultivating essential skills for safety at work, required in both theoretical design and practical application. One such crucial skill is the ability to assess professional risks across all engineering domains. To promote sustainabl...

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Published in:Applied sciences 2024-10, Vol.14 (19), p.8918
Main Authors: Ispășoiu, Adrian, Milosan, Ioan, Gabor, Camelia, Oancea, Gheorghe
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accident prevention
Civil engineering
Collaboration
Design
educational methodology
Employees
Engineering education
Experiential learning
Industrial Revolution
Methods
Occupational health
Occupational health and safety
Occupational safety
Risk assessment
Safety and security measures
Safety management
safety workplace
Software
software package
Training
Workers
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Summary:When training engineers and team leaders, it is crucial to focus on cultivating essential skills for safety at work, required in both theoretical design and practical application. One such crucial skill is the ability to assess professional risks across all engineering domains. To promote sustainable safety awareness in workplaces and to initiate the early education and training of engineering workers through training and testing, we developed a software application and tested it among Romanian workers. This software facilitates the management of the entire risk assessment process, further enhancing the training experience. The presented methodology used for learning, testing, and assessing the skills of engineering workers and for risk assessment, called EL-PRAI (Engineering Learning and Professional Risks Assessment in Industry), was tested on 238 workers (engineers and team leaders) from different engineering fields. The results obtained and the workers’ positive feedback support a broader use of the software application for educating engineers and team leaders on workplace safety. If the engineers and team leaders understand the risks at their workplaces well, they will be able to properly train their subordinate workers and order appropriate measures before starting activities.
ISSN:2076-3417
2076-3417
DOI:10.3390/app14198918