No.

Principle

Meaning

1

Avoiding risk

Eliminating the hazard or exposure to it

2

Evaluating unavoidable risks

Appreciating their nature and importance in order to determine actions that ensure worker health and safety

3

Tackling risks at the source

Integrating prevention as early as possible, in the design of the workplace, equipment and tasks

4

Adapting work to people

Designing workstations and choosing equipment and methods that minimize the monotony, drudgery and cadence of tasks

5

Allowing techniques to evolve

Watching for opportunities to install preventive means in phase with technical and organizational evolution

6

Replacing hazardous means with safer ones

Eliminating dangerous products or processes when the same result is obtainable using less hazardous means

7

Planning prevention

Integrating work technique, structure and conditions, social relations and the environment into a coherent unit

8

Implementing measures of collective protection

Giving priority to collective protection means, using personal protective devices only to enhance collective protection (not to compensate for inadequate collective means)

9

Giving appropriate instructions to workers

Giving employees the information necessary to perform their tasks under conditions of optimal safety