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The SOBANE risk management strategy and the Déparis method for the participatory screening of the risks

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Introduction

The first section of the document describes a risk-prevention strategy, called SOBANE, in four levels: screening, observation, analysis and expertise. The aim is to make risk prevention faster, more cost effective, and more effective in coordinating the contributions of the workers themselves, their management, the internal and external occupational health (OH) practitioners and the experts. These four levels are: screening, where the risk factors are detected by the workers and their management, and obvious solutions are implemented; observation, where the remaining problems are studied in more detail, one by one, and the reasons and the solutions are discussed in detail; analysis, where, when necessary, an OH practitioner is called upon to carry out appropriate measurements to develop specific solutions; expertise, where, in very sophisticated and rare cases, the assistance of an expert is called upon to solve a particular problem.

Method

The method for the participatory screening of the risks (in French: Dépistage Participatif des Risques), Déparis, is proposed for the first level screening of the SOBANE strategy. The work situation is systematically reviewed and all the aspects conditioning the easiness, the effectiveness and the satisfaction at work are discussed, in search of practical prevention measures. The points to be studied more in detail at level 2, observation, are identified. The method is carried out during a meeting of key workers and technical staff.

Conclusion

The method proves to be simple, sparing in time and means and playing a significant role in the development of a dynamic plan of risk management and of a culture of dialogue in the company.

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Acknowledgement

The Déparis method was developed and validated with the financial support of the European Social Fund and of the Belgian Federal Public Service Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue.

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  1. Occupational Hygiene and Work Physiology Unit, Université catholique de Louvain, Clos Chapelle aux Champs 3038, 1200, Brussels, Belgium

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Malchaire, J.B. The SOBANE risk management strategy and the Déparis method for the participatory screening of the risks. Int Arch Occup Environ Health 77, 443–450 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-004-0524-3

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