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Workplace injury compensation news
21/02/2008
Risk assessment launch launches hopes
Engineering experts and unions believe that the introduction of the new risk assessment standard for machinery, ISO 14121-1:2007, will provide European machinery workers with a new benchmark in workplace safety. It has also been speculated that the new risk assessment will save the payout of millions of pounds in workplace injury compensation.
Workplace injury compensation is not the only cost associated with machinery accidents. In addition, there are wider social and financial costs, which, indirectly, inevitably place a burden on society. The minds behind the new risk assessment scheme believe that placing a greater emphasis on the contribution of designers to the ongoing tuning of the safety aspects of machinery will effect a safer and more systematic process and thereby reduce the impact of machinery accidents to both workers and employers as well as society as a whole.
Since the new risk assessment standard, also known as the Safety of Machinery Risk Assessment Part 1, is to be adopted globally, it is also hoped that it will help facilitate smoother international trade.
Ultimate though, proof of whether the new standard has been successful will be in the statistics. If it coincides with a fall in electrocution, burn, radiation and cut injuries, then it will surely have done its job. When asked to comment, one industry insider quipped, "If it keeps some no win, no fee lawyers out of work, then we'll be able to say its working."
