Machinery Risk Assessment for Risk Reduction

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• Personal Author:
  Etherton J ; Raafat H ; Roudebush C ; Russell J ; Taubitz M
• Description:
  New avenues are reviewed and discussed for preventing industrial machine-related injury by means of realistic risk evaluation and reduction processes at the design and application stages of machinery development and use. U.S. guidelines and European standards on machinery risk assessment procedures are described. Applications of risk assessment for machine-related injury risk management and teaching machine-risk control are discussed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Author Keywords: Occupational Injury Guidelines Injuries Injury-prevention Machine-operators Machinery Risk-analysis Risk Assessment Traumatic-injuries
• ISSN:
  1080-7039
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; 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:
  7
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20031238
• Citation:
  Hum Ecol Risk Assess 2001 Dec; 7(7):1787-1799
• Contact Point Address:
  John Etherton, NIOSH/Division of Safety Research, 1095 Willowdale Rd., Morgantown, WV 26505
• Email:
  jre1@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Human and Ecological Risk Assessment
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b7ddff81d7179dcb34908d9b3cb1f18f8e820be2797fb29ff34a730fd57b4dc6042807f0e365c32eca85b7f63b84ef984b13b0a7fea544b0071145f694eb9edb
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/191546/cdc_191546_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 340.66 KB ]