The specific risks encountered at workplaces in the mines of the Jiu Valley and their correlation with the levels of danger

National Institute for Research and Development in Mine Safety and Protection to Explosion – INSEMEX, 32-34 G-ral Vasile Milea street, 332047, Petrosani, Hunedoara country, Romania

Abstract

In order to ensure an appropriate level of security and health in underground mining works, it is necessary to apply some methods of diagnosing the situation of the work system/workplace, from the aspect of work security, which involves:

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  knowing the risk factors of occupational injury and illness;

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  the ranking of risk factors in relation to the potential seriousness of the consequences on the executor;

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  identification and ranking of preventive measures to be applied.

The assessment of the risk level is a systematic examination of all aspects of the work process, undertaken in order to eliminate the sources that could cause bodily harm, which constitute the basis for the substantiation of measures to prevent and combat risks. For this reason, all those involved in the work process must be consulted in the risk assessment process.

Specific risk monitoring aims to carry out a pre-accident type assessment of the risk of occupational injury and illness using assessment criteria that are based on quantitative risk assessment.