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

Article 2018

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

BAuA recommendations for action on SARS-CoV-2

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

EMKG - Workplace and Chemicals

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

Key workplace OSH players in managing psychosocial risks

Manual lifting, holding, and carrying

Manual work processes

Methodological Approaches to Identify and Evaluate Psychosocial Risks in Business Practice

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

Prevalence and quality of workplace risk assessments - Findings from a representative company survey in Germany

Psychosocial Risk Management in a European Comparison

Psychosocial risk management in company practice

Psychosocial Risk Management in Company Practice

Psychosocial risk management in more and less favourable workplace conditions

Psychosocial Safety Climate - Psychosocial Safety Climate: Validating the German Questionnaire

Psychosocial Safety Climate and its Assessment in Germany - Preliminary Results

Risk assessment of handling rigid carbon nanotubes at a technical centre in Berlin

Risk assessment of manual handling operations at work with the key indicator method (KIM-MHO)

Risk communication for protection against hazardous substances in the workplace

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