Occupational risk management methodology and tools

The Piacenza Local Health Authority (AUSL) employs around 3 550 employees. The internal Health and Safety Department expressed the need to improve the risk assessment document. The need was derived from the low communication potential inherent in the traditional structure of the risk assessment document, which in most cases does not appear to be a genuinely user-centred communication system. The collaboration between the Health and Safety Department and the Mindpoint consultants involved an analysis, conducted in terms of cognitive ergonomics, which produced a user-centred risk assessment and communication system and software (for the input and communication of assessments and therefore the production of a risk assessment document) based on the principle that risk information must be available to users in the form that best meets their needs.