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Area of Science:

  • Occupational Health and Safety
  • Industrial Hygiene
  • Risk Management

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  • Micro-scale enterprises (MSEs) in Korea face mandatory workplace environmental and health inspections.
  • Limited resources necessitate prioritizing high-risk MSEs for effective inspection coverage.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and apply a qualitative risk assessment methodology for identifying high-risk MSEs.
  • To guide resource allocation for workplace inspections in MSEs.

Main Methods:

  • A qualitative risk assessment combined chemical hazard data (HSE) and exposure potential (AIHA).
  • A Risk Index (RI) was calculated based on chemical properties and usage scale.
  • The method was piloted on 170 MSEs from a sample of 4000.

Main Results:

  • Identified high-risk MSEs including wood products, chemicals, basic metals, machinery, motor vehicles, and furniture manufacturing.
  • Assigned Risk Index (RI) values to chemicals within different industries.
  • Demonstrated the effectiveness of the RI in categorizing risk levels.

Conclusions:

  • The developed risk assessment methodology successfully identifies high-risk MSEs.
  • Focusing inspections on identified high-risk sectors like wood and chemical manufacturing is recommended.
  • This method is adaptable for workplaces lacking prior quantitative inspection data.