Evaluation of the professional risk for an employee in the building industry using an example of a concrete-steel fixer

Abstract

According to the Polish Labour Code Polish, the employer is obliged to evaluate and document the professional risk concerning the work performed, to apply preventive measures reducing the risk and to inform employees of the professional risk and rules of protection against hazards. Due to this fact, it is crucial to know methods of quantitative evaluation of the professional risk. In this paper, a risk evaluation for a profession of the building industry (concrete-steel fixer) is shown with the use of three methods: the five-stage method according to the Polish standard PN-N-18002:2011, the Fine & Kinney method and the preliminary hazard analysis (PHA). With this aim, hazards for this profession and preventive means have been gathered, numerical values of related coefficients have been selected, and the general risk has been calculated. The results confirm the observations from construction sites that the profession of a concrete-steel fixer is very demanding from physical, mental and health points of view.