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Document ID (ISN)76786
CIS number 01-787
ISSN - Serial title 1877-7856 - Encyclopédie médico-chirurgicale
Year 1999
Convention or series no. Fascicule 16-930-C-10
Author(s) De Gaudemaris R.
Title Evaluation of actitivities designed to prevent occupational hazards
Original title Evaluation des actions de prévention des risques professionnels [in French]
Bibliographic information Toxicologie-Pathologie professionnelle, 3rd Quarter 1999, No.124, 4p. 26 ref.
Abstract The methodology for applying the results of epidemiological studies is well established. The main steps consist of analysing the epidemiological data on the hazard through a survey of literature, creating a logical model for selecting the prevention approach to be evaluated, defining the evaluation criteria and selecting the "intervention" (implementing the preventive action and validating its efficiency). The intervention to be evaluated can involve individual, collective or organizational prevention actions, or behavioural changes. The measurement of the effect of the prevention action can be either direct (prevention of mortality or morbidity), or indirect (lowering of risk levels, training, changes in behaviour). However, studies which are methodologically sound, and which alone truly allow the measurement of the efficiency of the prevention actions, are often difficult to implement in practice. It is therefore essential to develop linkages with the companies' political and business structures.
Descriptors (primary) France; description of technique; cohort study; hazard evaluation
Descriptors (secondary) literature survey; morbidity; mortality; human factors; safety training in industry; epidemiologic study; safety planning; encyclopaedia; data sheet; human behaviour
Document type F - Information notes, codes of practice, standards
Country / State or ProvinceFrance
Subject(s) Occupational pathology
Broad subject area(s) Occupational medicine, epidemiology
Browse category(ies) Risk evaluation