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Developed by the Health and Safety Authority (HSA), BeSMART.ie is a free, anonymous online tool designed to facilitate occupational health and safety (OHS) compliance among small businesses and the self-employed in Ireland, an audience often difficult to mobilize on these issues.
Although the tool is currently used exclusively in Ireland, EU-OSHA is considering its transferability potential to other European countries. Indeed, it is regularly compared with OiRA (Online interactive Risk Assessment), a similar solution developed at European level and deployed in all 27 member states.
Indeed, since its launch in 2011, BeSMART.ie has enjoyed growing success: the platform is now used by some 10,000 companies, with over 90,000 risk assessments generated and more than 250,000 OHS documents downloaded. Well beyond initial expectations, the tool is particularly used to edit customized safety declarations and finalize prevention initiatives, whether for compliance purposes, to start a project, to respond to an inspection, or simply to update OHS documents.
Based on the IEC 31010:2019 standard on risk assessment techniques, the platform covers more than 300 types of company, and offers a range of content for high-risk sectors such as construction, agriculture and healthcare.
