Management of Chemical Risks Participatory Strategy

The SOBANE strategy makes it possible to tackle progressively the problems of health and safety of a working situation,to coordinate the cooperation between workers, technicians, occupational health and safety profes-sionals and experts and to reach prevention more rapidly, more effectively and more economically. It plans 4 levels of intervention: Screening, Observation, Analysis, Expertise. The paper presents the tools designed to guide the approach at each level of the strategy and reports on the validation study performed in 10 small and medium sized companies.
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