Improvement of the occupational risk management process in the work safety system of the enterprise

Oleg Bazaluk; Vitalii Tsopa; Małgorzata Okrasa; Artem Pavlychenko; Serhii Cheberiachko; Olena Yavorska; Oleg Deryugin; Vasyl Lozynskyi

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2023.1330430

Improvement of the occupational risk management process in the work safety system of the enterprise

Front Public Health. 2024 Jan 15:11:1330430. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1330430. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Oleg Bazaluk¹, Vitalii Tsopa², Małgorzata Okrasa³, Artem Pavlychenko⁴, Serhii Cheberiachko⁵, Olena Yavorska⁵, Oleg Deryugin⁶, Vasyl Lozynskyi^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Belt and Road Initiative Center for Chinese-European Studies (BRICCES), Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, Maoming, China.
² Department of Management and Economics, International Institute of Management, Kyiv, Ukraine.
³ Department of Personal Protective Equipment, Central Institute of Labour Protection - National Research Institute, Łódź, Poland.
⁴ Department of Ecology and Technologies of Environmental Protection, Dnipro University of Technology, Dnipro, Ukraine.
⁵ Department of Labour Protection and Civil Safety, Dnipro University of Technology, Dnipro, Ukraine.
⁶ Department of Transportation Management, Dnipro University of Technology, Dnipro, Ukraine.
⁷ Department of Mining Engineering and Education, Dnipro University of Technology, Dnipro, Ukraine.

Abstract

Purpose: The research purpose is to improve the management of occupational risks associated with hazards as well as the organization's capabilities to identify hazardous factors (HFs) using the "BOW-TIE" method in accordance with the provisions of the ISO 45001:2019 standard.

Methods: To improve occupational risk management, the "BOW-TIE" method has been introduced into occupational health and safety management systems. This approach facilitates a comprehensive description and analysis of potential risk development from identifying hazardous factors to studying the consequences. It visually integrates fault and event trees to provide a holistic view of risk dynamics.

Results: The improvement of the occupational hazard risk management process considers both internal and external factors affecting the organization, thereby increasing the probability and severity of potential hazardous events. The revised approach categorizes risk levels as acceptable, unacceptable, or verifiable. In addition, occupational risk management requires an in-depth analysis of the organization's external and internal environment to identify hazards that affect the probability and severity of potential hazardous events.

Conclusion: This research proposes an innovative approach to occupational risk management by determining the magnitude of occupational risk as the cumulative result of assessing risks associated with all external and internal factors influencing the probability of hazardous event occurring. The introduction of the "BOW-TIE" method, combined with a comprehensive analysis of the organizational environments, facilitates a more effective and nuanced approach to occupational risk management.

Keywords: assessment of occupational risk; hazardous factor; occupational risk; occupational safety; “BOW-TIE” method.

MeSH terms

Occupational Health*
Risk Assessment / methods
Risk Management* / methods
Safety Management / methods

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This study was carried out as part of the project “Belt and Road Initiative Center for Chinese-European studies (BRICCES)” and was funded by the Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology.