Evaluate Controls
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- Follow up risk assessment to evaluate controls
- Ontario Ergonomics Cost-Benefit Calculator
- Related Resources
Introduction
This refers to “Evaluate” in RACE. Follow-up and evaluation are essential to ensure the effectiveness of control actions taken to prevent MSD. You should be prepared to try a few fixes to find the right one for workers, the work process and the workplace. The organization should also conduct regular follow-up evaluations to ensure that all control actions have been implemented as planned, are being used correctly and consistently and are continuing to eliminate or mitigate any MSD hazards as planned.
Follow-up Risk Assessment to Evaluate Controls
The organization should conduct a new risk assessment to evaluate the effectiveness of controls. The organization should:
- Use checklists and multiple workers’ feedback sessions to check whether the changes have removed the original hazards and improved the work.
- Re-evaluate the changed jobs/tasks using the same checklists and tools as previously used in the Risk Assessment steps.
- Use the Quick Employee Feedback Survey with multiple workers to help evaluate the controls implemented.
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YES: Go back to hazard recognition or Step 4.0 of the basic or comprehensive guideline.
NO: Go to monitoring in Step 8.0 of the basic or comprehensive guideline. -
YES: Revisit hazards and root cause analysis in Step 4.0 and revisit Identification, evaluation, and choice of controls in Step 5.0
NO: Go to monitoring in Step 8.0 of the basic or comprehensive guideline.
Ontario Ergonomics Intervention Cost-Benefit Calculator
If you're considering multiple ergonomics interventions, and need a method to quantify the return on investment, this calculator is a great resource.
The calculator uses injury cost data from WSIB to calculate the annual savings and payback period for ergonomic interventions. To use the calculator, you will input injury data for your organization from the last three years, the costs associated with the ergonomic intervention, the effectiveness of the solution, and potential productivity improvements associated with the intervention. The calculator will output total estimated annual savings, estimated net benefits of the intervention, and the payback period for the intervention.
Related Resources
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