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Attributes
- Workplace Wellbeing and Safety
Source
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
Type of Resource
Guide
Target Area
Risk Management
Target Unit
Diversity & Inclusion
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This guide provides a model for making risk assessment more gender-sensitive by focusing on five stages of risk assessment and recommending how to include gender in each of them.
- Hazard Identification – include gender by:
- Considering hazards prevalent in both male- and female-dominated jobs
- Considering the entire workforce without forgetting part-time, temporary, and those employees on leave
- Encouraging women to report issues
- Risk assessment – include gender by:
- Not making assumptions based only on job description or title
- Involving women in risk assessment
- Including gender in stress, reproductive health, and musculoskeletal disorders assessments
- Implementation of solutions – include gender by:
- Aiming to eliminate risks at source, to provide a safe and healthy workplace for all employees
- Involving women in decisionmaking and implementation of solutions
- Ensuring all genders are provided with OHS information and training relevant to their jobs
4 & 5. Monitoring and Review – include gender by:
- Keeping up to date with new information about gender-related occupational health issues
- Recording occupational health issues and accidents
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