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An Occupational Health Risk Assessment (OHRA) is the structured and systematic process of identifying workplace health hazards, then assessing their harmfulness and the degree to which employees may be exposed to them. Hence the risk is directly proportional to the harmfulness of the hazard and the degree of exposure to the hazard.
The Occupational Health and Safety Act (85 of 1993), Section 8(2)(d), requires that every employer shall identify the hazards to the health & safety of persons at work. This includes activities related to any article or substance which is produced, processed, used, handled, stored or transported and any plant or machinery which is used in their business. Furthermore, she or he shall establish what precautionary measures should be taken and provide the necessary means to apply such precautionary measures.
Regulations that reinforce this, of particular relevance to Occupational Health, include:
By conducting an OHRA an organisation has a record of such matters as –
(a) the HCS to which an employee may be exposed;
(b) what effects the HCS can have on an employee;
(c) where the HCS may be present;
(d) the route of intake by which and the extent to which an employee can be exposed; as well as
(e) the nature of the work, process and any reasonable deterioration in, or failure of, any control measures.
