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Controls to prevent and mitigate

Definition

The broader strategies and systemic measures that an organisation can take to proactively identify, prevent, or manage psychosocial hazards in a workplace. Strategies and measures can include adopting health and safety in design, mitigating health impacts, emergency management procedures, and user-centred design approaches. 

Synonyms

  • Mitigation of health impacts
  • Emergency management
  • User centred design approach to control psychosocial risk
  • Health and safety in design
  • Hierarchy of controls
  • Hazard elimination
  • Hazard isolation
  • Hazard substitution
  • Hazard Actions
  • Hazard Controls
  • Psychosocial Interventions
  • Minimise impact disease
  • Minimise impacts injury
  • Disasters
  • Disruptions
  • Emergencies
  • Threats
  • Participatory ergonomics
  • Safe design
  • Prevention through design
  • Actions
  • Controls
  • Interventions
  • Personal protective equipment