Risk Assessment and Occupational Safety and Health Protection in Construction Work on Brownfields

Working on brownfields, the workers who have to carry out these jobs are exposed to hazardous substances (chemicals and/or micro-organisms). This paper proposes a method of risk assessment and specification of measures for occupational safety and health protection, consisting of two steps: danger analysis and exposure assessment. Danger analysis means the investigation of the hazardous substances, of their physical, chemical and hazardous properties and the states of matter, being responsible for their mobility and emission behavior. Exposure assessment starts with the so-called “working area analysis” – the investigation of the jobs that have to be carried out and of the working area conditions, which have a serious influence on the chance and level of exposure. Taking into account the possible absorption routes and limiting values used in occupational safety and health protection, the combination of the danger analysis data with the results of the exposure assessment leads to the risk assessment, the assessment of the possible health risk, and finally to the specification of safety measures. Risk assessment saves money: the less you know about the hazardous properties of a contaminated site, the higher the level of safety measures has to be, and the higher the costs of safety and health protection become.

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• Authors:
  • Feige-Munzig, A P
• Conference:
  • Fourth International Conference on Prevention, Assessment, Rehabilitation and Development of Brownfield Sites
  • Location: Cephalonia , Greece
  • Date: 2008-5-6 to 2008-5-8
• Publication Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 209-220
• Monograph Title: Brownfields Sites IV. Prevention, Assessment, Rehabilitation and Development of Brownfield Sites

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Brownfields; Contaminants; Health care; Occupational safety; Public health; Risk assessment; Safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: Contaminated soils; Exposure (Pollutants)
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01110031
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9781845641054
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 31 2008 8:11AM