About this tool

Slips and trips accidents, violence of all types, back pain and other work-related health problems lead to private security guards being victim of work-related accidents or reporting temporarily inactive for short or longer periods. This is not a favourable situation for private security guards, private security companies and customers.

This is where OiRA can assist

• To keep the private security guards healthy and motivated, employers may need to identify the risks they may have not yet sufficiently addressed.
• This is not only often a legal obligation, in accordance with European, national or local laws or in accordance with applicable collective labour agreements (CLAs). It will help to reduce costs and negative impact of work related accidents and sickness absence.

OiRA is easy to use.

• It offers a full risk assessment in the private security sector.
• It provides adequate proven control and prevention measures. You can select what is applicable to your specific situation.
• It can be easily carried out for different places of work.
• It can involve several persons: the employer, team leader, private security guards, client
• It offers implementation assistance: time planning, budgets, monitoring, ...
• It can be downloaded and printed for documentation
• It can be repeated and adapted easily.

SOLUTIONS. The solutions provided in this tool should be considered as suggestions.

CONFIDENTIALITY GUARANTEED. All information you enter, is kept confidentially and cannot be accessed by any other parties.

DEVELOPMENT. OiRA Security has been developed with the support of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) and in collaboration with and under the supervision of the social dialogue partners: CoESS, employers and UNI europa, trade unions.

TERMINOLOGY. The terminology used in this tool is based on this European Educational Toolkit and the Standard EN 15602 'Security service providers - Terminology'.

WANT TO KNOW MORE? European training manual 'Preventing occupational hazards in the private security sector' (pdf)