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Rapid Risk Assessment in Industry: Increasing Awareness of Worker Safety in Industrial Activities

Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
Journal · Vol. 14 · Issue 19 · Art. 8918
Abstract

When training engineers and team leaders, it is crucial to focus on cultivating essential skills for safety at work, required in both theoretical design and practical application. One such crucial skill is the ability to assess professional risks across all engineering domains. To promote sustainable safety awareness in workplaces and to initiate the early education and training of engineering workers through training and testing, we developed a software application and tested it among Romanian workers. This software facilitates the management of the entire risk assessment process, further enhancing the training experience. The presented methodology used for learning, testing, and assessing the skills of engineering workers and for risk assessment, called EL-PRAI (Engineering Learning and Professional Risks Assessment in Industry), was tested on 238 workers (engineers and team leaders) from different engineering fields. The results obtained and the workers’ positive feedback support a broader use of the software application for educating engineers and team leaders on workplace safety. If the engineers and team leaders understand the risks at their workplaces well, they will be able to properly train their subordinate workers and order appropriate measures before starting activities. © 2024 by the authors.

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educational methodology risk assessment safety workplace software package

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Personnel training Risk management Workers' Accident prevention Software testing Ability testing Safety testing Software packages Educational methodologies Industrial activities Professional risks Risks assessments Safety at work Safety workplace Software applications Team leaders Worker safety
Author Affiliations
Department of Materials Science, Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov, Brasov, Brasov, Romania
Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov, Brasov, Brasov, Romania
Funding & Acknowledgements
Universitatea Transilvania din Brasov
The APC was funded by Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania. Our work was presented at the 7th Euroasian Conference on Educational Innovation Committees, the participation in the conference was financially supported by Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania.
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