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Risk Assessment Using WRAC Tool in a Manufacturing Industry

K. Adrin Michael Franc, S. Bhaskar

Abstract


Keeping up a safe workplace is one of the imperative obligations of the management according to labour laws and to ensure the resources. The different sources of hazard in the workplace have a tendency to make harm to the workers, hardware and even the operations. Occupational Risk assessment is a process of identifying the occupational hazards that affect the workers and take steps to eliminate or control the hazards various tools are used for performing risk assessment. This paper deals with identifying the department in the industry that had accidents with consequence of higher severity and then using Workplace Risk Assessment and Control tool to identify the occupational hazards, evaluating it and suggest control measures.

Keywords: hazard, occupational risk, risk assessment, safety, WRAC

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijmmp.v2i2.101

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