Occupational risk assessment in the process of continuous steel casting

Purpose: of the presented paper aimed at motivating the necessity of the implementation of Occupational Health and Safety Management System and showing the possibility of usage the estimation of threats to occupational health and safety and results of threats; in this case in the process of continuous steel casting. Design/methodology/approach: used for the research has covered the occupational health and safety risk assessment including the identification and classification of the threats, occupational risk assessment as well as calculation of its acceptability Findings: of the carried out researches are as follows: the realization of occupational health and safety policy using the occupational health and safety risk assessment leads to the improvement of the analyzed processes by the preventive actions, and in consequence - lowering of the occupational risk to the acceptable level. Practical implications: can refer to continuous steel casting processes and to the usage of occupational health and safety risk assessment, identification of the threats connected with physical factors in the sudden manner acting on worker as well as recommendation of the preventive actions in the form of the means of collective and individual protection and organizationaland procedural means. Originality/value: of the presented paper has the meaning both for the employees from the point of view of work in the safe and hygienic conditions, as well as for employers from the point of view of creation the proper work background and possibilities of legal and normative requirements fulfilling.