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UNI Europa Property Services and its Social Partner CoESS, have formally validated the European Online Interactive Risk Assessment (OiRA) Tool for Private Security Services. Risk assessment in the workplace is key to protecting the health and safety of workers and reducing occupational accidents. Unfortunately, many small and medium enterprises do not have the resources to do this adequately, to the detriment of their employees’ well-being. Therefore, with the support from EU-OSHA, UNI Europa Property Services worked with CoESS to develop the tool for the private security sector.

Content of the tool

The OiRA Tool for Private Security Services consists of 6 modules:

o          General module: OSH Management

o          Module: Commercial manned guarding

o          Module: Mobile patrolling/intervention after alarm

o          Module: Event security

o          Module: Airport security

o          Module: Maritime security

To access the tool, please click here. In order to receive a login and password to use the tool, you need to register first. This registration is free of charge.

Please click here to go directly to the OiRA registration page.

The content of this European tool is intended to give input for the development of national tools by national social partners of the sector. Interested partners should contact their relevant national institute or authority. This can be done directly or via the European Agency for Health and Safety.

Background on OiRA

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) developed the OiRA tool with the aim of facilitating risk assessment and is intended for micro and small European organisations in various sectors. The OiRA tools are freely available and are promoted amongst the agency’s national OiRA partners, which are mainly Ministries and Labour Inspectorates.

For further information please click here.

Next steps

UNI Europa Property Services is promoting the tool and would like to encourage its member organisations to be involved in national endeavours with national social partners to adapt it accordingly.

UNI Europa Property Services is also currently working to elaborate the OiRA tool for the cleaning sector, in collaboration with its Social Partner EFCI (European Federation of Cleaning Industries).

For further information, please contact the policy officer responsible for the UNI Europa Property Services sector, Anna Harvey: anna.harvey@uniglobalunion.org