Risk Assessment

The basis for safe, healthy work

Risk assessment is the key element in workplace occupational safety and health (OSH) provision. It forms the basis for successful, systematic safety and health management.

A woman and a man with a laptop carry out a risk assessment in a warehouse — © iStock | AnnaStills

Since 1996 the German Occupational Safety and Health Act (Arbeitsschutzgesetz, ArbSchG) has placed a duty on all employers to conduct assessments of working conditions and the risks associated with them in order to identify the measures necessary for the protection of their employees.

These pages supply information about the factors that have to be taken into consideration in risk assessments, as well as offering practical guidance.

BAuA makes the online version of its Handbook on Risk Assessment (Handbuch Gefährdungsbeurteilung) available free of charge. A Key Indicator Method developed at BAuA can also be used for the risk assessment of physical workload.

Research Projects

Project numberF 2498 StatusOngoing Project Consideration of psychosocial risks in Occupational Safety and Health. Fundamental revision of the BAuA specialist book

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Project numberF 2483 StatusCompleted Project Simplified risk assessment of incoherent high-power spotlights

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Project numberF 2399 StatusOngoing Project Project cluster: Physical inactivity in the workplace - etiology, risk assessment & prevention, Project 1a Scoping review; Project 1b Systematic review

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Project numberF 2391 StatusCompleted Project Interactive guidance for the measurement of physical agents within the scope of risk assessment

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Project numberF 2358 StatusCompleted Project Psychosocial risk management in company practice

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Project numberF 2339 StatusCompleted Project Psychosocial risk management in the EU: Context, strategies and implementation at establishment level - a comparative European study

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Publications

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"It's good that we talked about it ...?!" - Methodological challenges in the assessment of risk of psychological stress in SMEs

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The complete article can be purchased in German at the website of the Journal "Arbeitsmedizin, Sozialmedizin, Umweltmedizin", …

Risk Assessment

Research Projects

Project numberF 2498 StatusOngoing Project Consideration of psychosocial risks in Occupational Safety and Health. Fundamental revision of the BAuA specialist book

Project numberF 2483 StatusCompleted Project Simplified risk assessment of incoherent high-power spotlights

Project numberF 2399 StatusOngoing Project Project cluster: Physical inactivity in the workplace - etiology, risk assessment & prevention, Project 1a Scoping review; Project 1b Systematic review

Project numberF 2391 StatusCompleted Project Interactive guidance for the measurement of physical agents within the scope of risk assessment

Project numberF 2358 StatusCompleted Project Psychosocial risk management in company practice

Project numberF 2339 StatusCompleted Project Psychosocial risk management in the EU: Context, strategies and implementation at establishment level - a comparative European study

Publications

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"It's good that we talked about it ...?!" - Methodological challenges in the assessment of risk of psychological stress in SMEs

Adequate data in REACH exposure scenarios for successful workplace risk assessment

Association of work load and mental disorders - Review of the data

Barriers and success factors in psychosocial risk management - a cross-cultural comparative approach

Coarse Screening of Physical Stress

Consideration of mental stress in occupational medical practice

Consideration of psychosocial factors in workplace risk assessments: findings from a company survey in Germany

Current Status of Knowledge About Health Risk From Mental Workload - Evidence Based on a Systematic Review of Reviews

Designing Work to Reduce Time and Performance Pressures. Challenges and Approaches in the Context of Psychosocial Risk Management

Implementation of 2013/35/EU in Germany - Risk Assessment based on Exposure Limit Values

Information overload at the workplace - Health complaints in a longitudinal analysis of the BAuA working time survey

Interaction Design for Hybrid Intelligence: The Case of Work Place Risk Assessment

Interactive Work - Consideration of Specific Psychosocial Factors in Workplace Risk Assessments

Interventions as the centrepiece of psychosocial risk assessment - why so difficult?

Key workplace OSH players in managing psychosocial risks

Leadership in the Focus of Interest - Special Requirements for the Practice of Leadership and Recommendations for Risk Assessment of Psychosocial Stress

Mental Stress: New Recommendations of the GDA

Methodological Approaches to Identify and Evaluate Psychosocial Risks in Business Practice

Occupational exposure to hazardous substances & risk management measures - information obligations under REACH: An assessment of data availability & supply chain communication in chemical safety reports and safety data sheets

Pretesting of new Key Indicator Methods in Germany using techniques of qualitative research

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