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RI&E: Risk Inventory and Evaluation

An RI&E is an overview of all risks to the safety and health of your employees, with an assessment of those risks and an action plan to reduce them.

Explanation

In an RI&E you map what can go wrong in your organisation (inventory), estimate how big and how likely each risk is (evaluation) and record what you do about it in an action plan. It covers the whole organisation: workplaces, machines, substances, lifting, work pressure.

In the Netherlands the RI&E is a core part of the Arbowet (Working Conditions Act): an employer with staff is expected to have one. Whether and how the RI&E has to be reviewed, and which sector instruments you can use, depends on your organisation and sector. Check the Dutch Arboportaal for the current rules.

An RI&E is not a one-off document. You keep it up to date when something changes, such as new machines, a move or an accident that reveals something new. A TRA works out one task in more depth, while the RI&E maintains the overall picture.

Example from practice

An installation company reviews the workshop, van and customer sites, notes among others noise, lifting and working at height, gives each risk a score and puts the measures with owner and planning in the action plan.

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Where you work with RI&E

Risk assessment & action planAssess risks and set out an action plan. ActionsFollow up corrective and preventive actions. Workplace inspectionsCarry out inspections with clear checklists.
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Keep reading

How to prepare a risk assessment (RI&E): a step-by-step guideThe RI&E, the Dutch risk inventory and evaluation, is the foundation of your occupational health and safety policy. You map out the risks in your organization and what you do about them. This step-by-step guide helps you build an RI&E that is accurate, usable and kept up to date. RI&E example: a worked risk assessment for a small or mid-sized companyAn RI&E example shows in a few minutes what ten pages of explanation cannot: how risks, scores and measures fit together. Below we work out a risk inventory and evaluation (RI&E) for a fictional small company that supplies and installs products. Choosing RI&E software: what should an RI&E tool be able to do?Good RI&E software lets you carry out the RI&E digitally and keep it up to date: take inventory per department, assess risks on a fixed scale, follow up measures with an owner and deadline, and have the RI&E reviewed. An RIE tool is more than a form to fill in, because the value lies in follow-up and repetition. Whether your RI&E must be reviewed, and with which instrument you work, depends on your organisation.
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See also

Action planAction plan (risk assessment follow-up)Kinney methodKinney method (Kinney & Wiruth)Risk matrixRisk matrixTRATask Risk AnalysisArbowetWorking Conditions Act (Arbowet)

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