Program Supporting the Assessment of Occupational Risk-Harmful Factors

Abstract

In Poland as well as in most European countries one of the most important problem, is still high rate of occupational diseases among workers of different branches of national economy. It is caused by many factors such as: high percentage of workers exposed to one or a few harmful factors in technological process, exceeding acceptable limits of a factor in a workplace, inappropriate identification of harmful factors and long-term effects of exposition to them. This chapter presents basic assumptions of computer system supporting health risk evaluation in mining. The computer system uses assumptions of rating method of health risk evaluation worked out in Institute of Ergonomics and Safety Management in Technical University of Silesia. The advantages of presented computer system supporting health risk evaluation are: the easiness of registration and documentation of all activities in the range of health protection of workers in the work process, the possibility of determining aims and priorities of activities in the field improving work conditions, enabling controlling hazards by showing the necessity of undertaking activities essential for their reducing, obtaining a up-to-date information which leads to taking fast preventive actions.