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    • Course objectives :

      • Know and understand the 9 general principles of prevention.

  • general principles of prevention

    • Context :

      • The aim of occupational risk prevention is to protect employee health and safety, improve working conditions and promote well-being at work.
      • An occupational risk prevention approach is built by involving all the players concerned.
      • To put in place a prevention approach, it is necessary to rely on nine major general principles.
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      Quiz first : test on general principles of prevention

    • see the following video explanation :

      Source - INRS : https://www.inrs.fr/demarche/principes-generaux/introduction.html

    • list of prevention principles :

      1. Avoiding risks
      2. Assessing risks that cannot be avoided
      3. Combating risks at source
      4. Adapting work to people (workstation ergonomics, choice of machinery, etc.)
      5. Take account of technical developments (new products on the market, etc.)
      6. Replace what is dangerous by what is not or is less dangerous (chemical products, etc.)
      7. Plan prevention by prioritising the actions to be taken
      8. Take collective measures, giving them priority over individual protection measures
      9. Train and inform workers.

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    • see further :
      https://www.inrs.fr/demarche/principes-generaux/introduction.html