oira - online interactive risk assessment - an overview of the project

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Online interactive Risk Assessment

Advisory Committee for Safety and Health at Work

Luxembourg, 28 November 2013 | Lorenzo Munar

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Summary

1. Online presentation of an OiRA tool (EU tool leather & tanning)

2. Overview OiRA project • OiRA partners • OiRA tools published• OiRA tools under development• OiRA = EU platform that works!

3. OiRA drivers

4. OiRA barriers

5. The future


Online presentation of an OiRA tool


Overview OiRA project


OiRA partners


OiRA tools published


OiRA tools under development


OiRA = EU platform that works!

Leather and Tanning

Hairdressing

Hairdressing

An EU platform already available in 15 languages • in the process of being translated into another three

An EU community WORKING TOGETHER• sharing information, Good Practice, photos, …


OiRA drivers


New generation of risk assessment tools

Main features • Easy access, easy to use, …

Advantages of OiRA/interactive tools: • Dissemination facilitated through Internet• Evolutionary content • Didactic dimension • Platform to access other sources of information• Possibility to monitor use of such tools • An innovative tool


Perceptions

There is a more and more common perception that such tools …• Are the future• Need to be developed by governments/ministries/public institutions

and offered for free

The last EU OSH strategy and most national strategies mention (more or less explicitly) the need to develop such practical and simple tools to facilitate the RA process among micro and small enterprises (MSEs).


Economies of scale

General agreement / common perception that cooperation at EU level for the development of such tools is needed • especially in a context of economic crisis and limited resources.

Mutualising (pooling) efforts / resources at EU level • OiRA partners building on what other partners from other countries

are doing.

Fostering cooperation among EU/national OiRA partners / researchers • building bridges, strengthening collaboration, setting up new ways of

exchanging/sharing information.


OiRA challenges


Challenge: Lack of awareness

Lack of OSH (RA) awareness among micro and small companies Risk prevention is not the main goal/concern for micro and small

businesses


Reasons for not carrying out risk assessments regularly

Source: EU-OSHA ESENER survey


Major reasons for addressing health and safety

Source: EU-OSHA ESENER survey


OiRA – as a tool - can contribute to ….

Help micro and small companies to fulfil their legal obligation; Guide those lacking expertise / thinking RA is too complicated to

start with the process; Increase risk awareness (and risk prevention in general).


Challenge: reaching MSEs (and making them act)

When it comes to MSEs, one of the main challenges is simply to reach them

The “promotional” side of OiRA is critical for the project

The OiRA community is fully aware of this and is already addressing this issue by:• improving knowledge on this specific issue;• increasing the range of means/channels traditionally used to reach

MSEs (by using/setting up new ones);• integrating OiRA in a more global strategy (and not as a stand-alone

product).


OiRA – as a project – encourages …

Setting up a promotional strategy for each single tool / sector • Conduct insight research of the target audience before carrying out

any promotion actions.• Use the relevant partners/channels to reach the target audience.• Adapt the “messages” to each specific sector.

Planning a campaign and not just individual and isolated actions Adding new communication channels (Twitter, Facebook,

LinkedIn, etc.) to the traditional ones Using influencers, large multipliers and piggy backing onto third

party events Sending the “correct” messages to micro and small enterprises

(adapting them to each specific sector) Disseminating the tools through personal contact


Follow up of our actions with statistics - Statistical monitoring (OiRA road transport)


Integrate the tool in the framework of a global sectoral strategy


The future of OiRA


The future of OiRA

Continue to build on this unique and EU shared platform• Developing more tools and try to “cover” all the sectors • Facilitate the sharing of information/tools

− Keep developing the OiRA library− Translating tools into English to make them more accessible to the

OiRA community

Prepare the field for the development of the second generation of OiRA tools by developing new functionalities• Making the OiRA tools much more flexible and adaptable to the

specificities of sectors (and national contexts)• Allowing / fostering a different relationship between the developers

of the tools and the end-users (more feedback, exchange of information/services)

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