Reducing Risk on Machinery: A Field Evaluation Pilot Study of Risk Assessment

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• Personal Author:
  Christensen W ; Cloutier D ; Etherton J ; Main B
• Description:
  A pilot evaluation of the ANSI B11-TR3 Machinery Risk Assessment/Risk Reduction (RA/RR) Guideline was conducted. The TR3 guideline was introduced into five companies on one machinery system in each company with a second machine system serving as a control. A pre-post investigation was performed with safety conditions measured pre and post in both treatment and control and with risk reduction score measured only in the treatment machine system. NIOSH provided a commercially available risk assessment software to facilitate the process. Evaluation measures included avoided injuries, reduced exposure to machinery hazards, pretest and posttest knowledge demonstration, assessment of group processes following training, correct implementation of the guidelines, and degree to which risk reduction recommendations were implemented. The qualitative results of this pilot effort appear to be the best indicators for the way ahead in industrial machine risk assessment. All companies indicated that they derived value in participating in this study and in conducting risk assessments. Quantitative study results suggest that: (1) as measured by the knowledge of the participants before and after the TR3 training, the guidelines can be effective at enhancing employee knowledge of safe machine operations and (2) although the injury reduction trends appear successful, the small sample size in the study size should be considered in interpreting these early results. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Accident-rates Accident-statistics Author Keywords: Evaluation Injury-prevention Machine-operators Machine-shop-workers Machine Risk Machinists Risk-analysis Risk Assessment Standards Surveillance Training

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• ISSN:
  0272-4332
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; Indiana ; Michigan ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  28
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20034951
• Citation:
  Risk Anal 2008 Jun; 28(3):711-721
• Contact Point Address:
  John Etherton, 241 Waitman St., Morgantown, WV 26501
• Email:
  jre@saferjobs.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• NORA Priority Area:
  Disease and Injury: Traumatic Injuries
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Risk Analysis
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:749ae937e0f07b229f26b2e61d0f8423ded2db9e082f7203a72e213e411cb5eb8431209b3d061f07674c2bb08bfe08014e2c5220409015b4b3cc6a41680b26dd
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/186962/cdc_186962_DS1.pdf
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