INJURIES RISK ASSESSMENT FOR EMPLOYEES WITH DISABILITIES AT THE MANUAL TRANSFERRING OF LOADS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33042/2522-1809-2023-1-175-196-201Keywords:
risk, worker with disability, trauma, manual transferring of loadsAbstract
The employment of persons with permanent functional changes in health state is a difficult issue taking into account the fact that, in addition to objective risks caused by the presence of equipment, vehicles and other sources of potential hazards in the production environment, there are subjective risks related to psychophysiological features of a person. The vulnerability of persons with disabilities, compared to other workers, leads to discrimination in employment on the workplaces, because employers tend to consider them as a potential direct or indirect source of increasing the level of injuries or accidents in the company. The lack of qualified specialists in most Ukrainian enterprises capable to assess the risks and implement the principle of reasonable adaptation of equipment and technological processes to the special needs of persons with disabilities determines the need to develop risk assessment methods that will allow effective management decisions to be made to ensure safety at employees' workplaces.
The article proposes a method that allows assessing the risks of manual transferring of loads and takes into account the limitations of the life activities of persons with disabilities who, according to the conclusions of the medical and social expert commission, can do this work. The risk assessment methodology was developed on the basis of the international standard EN 1005-2 Safety of machinery – Human physical performance and adapted taking into account the peculiarities of the national legal framework. At the calculation of the risk, it is suggested to use a coefficient that depends on the degree of severity of life restrictions in relation to loads on the musculoskeletal system, established by the medical and social expert commission. This allows making the effective preventive decisions. For example, obtaining the value of the RІІ risk index at the level of 1.42 at the lifting a load weighing 10 kg, which is characterized as an unacceptable risk, can be adjusted both by changing the organization of the workplace and by reducing the weight of the load by 4 kg.
The use of the methodology allows specialists who are responsible for the safety to assess risks and use the labour potential of employees without harming their health and increasing the level of industrial injuries.
References
Konventsiia pro prava osib z invalidnistiu [Elektronnyi resurs] – Rezhym dostupu: http://zakon5.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/995_g71 (data zver-nennia 01.03.2023). – Nazva z ekrana.
Zakon Ukrainy «Pro osnovy sotsialnoi zakhyshchenosti invalidiv v Ukraini» [Elektronnyi resurs] / Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy – Rezhym dostupu: http://zakon2.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/875-12 (data zvernennia 01.03.2023). – Nazva z ekrana.
TESTO UNICO SULLA SALUTE E SICUREZZA SUL LAVORO N 81/2008 https://www.ispettorato.gov.it/it-it/strumenti-e-servizi/Documents/Testo-unico-salute-sicurezza-sul-lavoro-81-08-edizione-gennaio-2020.pdf
Calicchia S, Cangiano G, Scolamiero G, Capanna S, Papaleo B. (2019) Emerging problems and novel skills: a qualitative analysis on the role of occupational physicians. Med Lav. 2019 Jun 28;110(3):215-225. doi: 10.23749/mdl.v110i3.8265. PMID: 31268428; PMCID: PMC7812543.
Iavicoli I, Spatari G, Chosewood LC, Schulte PA. (2022) Occupational Medicine and Total Worker Health®: from preventing health and safety risks in the workplace to promoting health for the total well-being of the worker. Med Lav. 2022 Dec 7;113(6):e2022054. doi: 10.23749/mdl.v113i6.13891. PMID: 36475501; PMCID: PMC9766840.
ЕN 1005-2:2003+А1:2008 Safety of machinery —Human physical performance — Part 2: Manual handling of machinery and component parts of machinery
Pytannia medyko-sotsialnoi ekspertyzy [Elektronnyi resurs] / Kabinet Ministriv Ukrainy – Rezhym dostupu: http://zakon3.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/1317-2009-%D0%BF/page (data zvernennia 01.03.2023). – Nazva z ekrana.
Instruktsiia pro vstanovlennia hrup invalidnosti. Nakaz Ministerstva okhorony zdorovia Ukrainy 05.09.2011 N 561 – Rezhym dostupu: http://zakon5.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/z1295-11 (data zvernennia 01.03.2023). – Nazva z ekranu.
EN 1005-1:2001+A1:2008 Safety of machinery —Human physical performance — Part 1: Terms and definitions
Derzhavni sanitarni normy ta pravyla «Hihiienichna klasyfikatsiia pratsi za pokaznykamy shkidlyvosti ta nebezpechnosti faktoriv vyrobnychoho seredovyshcha, vazhkosti ta napruzhenosti trudovoho protsesu» : stanom na 08 kvit. 2014r. / Nakaz Ministerstva okhorony zdorovia Ukrainy № 248 vid 08.04.2014 r. – Rezhym dostupu: http://zakon2.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/z0472-14 (data zvernennia 01.03.2023). – Nazva z ekranu.
Poriadok vstanovlennia medyko-sotsialnymy ekspertnymy komisiiamy stupenia stiikoi vtraty profesiinoi pratsezdatnosti u vidsotkakh pratsivnykam, yakym zapodiiano ushkodzhennia zdorovia, poviazane z vykonanniam trudovykh oboviazkiv [Elektronnyi resurs]: stanom na 28 ver.2012 r. / Kabinet Ministriv Ukrainy – Rezhym dostupu: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/z1387-12 (data zvernennia 01.03.2023). – Nazva z ekrana.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
The authors who publish in this collection agree with the following terms:
• The authors reserve the right to authorship of their work and give the magazine the right to first publish this work under the terms of license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (with the Designation of Authorship - Non-Commercial - Without Derivatives 4.0 International), which allows others to freely distribute the published work with a mandatory reference to the authors of the original work and the first publication of the work in this magazine.
• Authors have the right to make independent extra-exclusive work agreements in the form in which they were published by this magazine (for example, posting work in an electronic repository of an institution or publishing as part of a monograph), provided that the link to the first publication of the work in this journal is maintained. .
• Journal policy allows and encourages the publication of manuscripts on the Internet (for example, in institutions' repositories or on personal websites), both before the publication of this manuscript and during its editorial work, as it contributes to the emergence of productive scientific discussion and positively affects the efficiency and dynamics of the citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).