Development of an Occupational Risk Assessment Method; A Case Study of a Research Center in Morocco

To reduce occupational accidents and diseases, as well as physical and financial losses associated to them, regulations in several countries require risk assessment. However, the difficulty of carrying out the risk assessment was reported by several companies. The present work proposes a method of risk assessment inspired by methods from the literature, and introduces staff competence as a parameter of risk assessment. It also presents the results from a case study of a scientific research center in Morocco. The chemical synthesis laboratory is identified as the laboratory with the highest risk score. Risks related to the handling of chemicals, fire risk and risks related to pressure equipment and fluids are successively risks whose scores are the highest in the whole center and are present in the chemical synthesis lab.