Comparative analysis of occupational risk evaluation results through various methodic approaches

• Published in: Meditsina truda i promyshlennaia ekologiia no. 1; p. 13
• Main Authors: Simonova, N I, Niziaeva, I V, Nazarov, S G, Zhuravleva, E A, Kondrova, N S, Stepanov, E G, Fasikov, R M, Grigor'eva, S M, Andreeva, E E, Ignatova, E N, Tsyrulin, A V, Mazitova, N N
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Russia (Federation) 2012
• Subjects: Asia, Central - epidemiology; Evaluation Studies as Topic; Finland - epidemiology; Humans; Male; Occupational Diseases - epidemiology; Occupational Health; Occupational Medicine - methods; Psychology; Risk Assessment - methods; Russia - epidemiology; Asia, Central; Finland; Russia
• ISSN: 1026-9428

Comparative analysis covered three models of occupational risk evaluation: (1) Method to evaluate risks at workplace, elaborated in Finland and recommended by International Work Safety Agency for Eastern Europe and Central Asia countries; (2) Method elaborated in Research Institute for Occupational Medicine with RAMSc under the direction of N.F. Izmerov and E.I. Denisov; (3) Method evaluating individual occupational risk, with consideration of work conditions and worker's health state, also elaborated in Research Institute for Occupational Medicine with RAMSc and Klin Institute of Work conditions and safety, approved in 2011 as methodic recommendations. Findings are that in contemporary Russia a unified method evaluating occupational risk is more expedient; the first method satisfactorily describes actual ratio of occupational risk levels and could be useful as an additional method for its evaluation, especially for psycho-social factors; the second method does not allow to evaluate occupational risk acceptably if absent longstanding occupational morbidity, but is recommended for risk evaluation in evidence-based medicine; the third method is recommended at federal level to fulfil requirements of Labour Code in Russian Federation and obligatory social insurance purposes.