Safety expertise and RI&E
Every employer with staff must have a risk inventory and evaluation (RI&E), with an action plan. Our safety experts draw one up, review an existing RI&E, and come and look when something has happened or when a workplace is causing complaints.
Delivered by Care Concern, part of the Arbo Concern group
When to use this
No RI&E, or an outdated one
The RI&E is required by law and has to be current. If something substantial changes in the work, the layout or the organisation, it has to be updated.
After an accident at work
An investigation into what happened and why, with measures that prevent a repeat. Serious accidents must be reported to the Netherlands Labour Authority.
With complaints about the workplace
Back, neck or shoulder complaints in one department are a signal. A workplace assessment shows what is causing the strain.
How it runs
- The safety expert inventories the risks per department and workplace.
- Risks are weighed and translated into an action plan with priorities and named owners.
- Where the law requires it, a certified senior safety expert reviews the whole.
- Where needed, training follows, so that the plan reaches the floor as well.
An RI&E in a drawer protects nobody. So it does not end with the report: the action plan names who does what and when, and where needed training follows so that it is known on the floor.
Where this falls in the process
The Gatekeeper clock runs for 104 weeks. Safety expertise and RI&E is shown in orange; the other three are shown for orientation.
Gatekeeper Improvement Act
- week 1Sickness report
- week 6Problem analysis
- week 42Notification to UWV
- week 52First-year evaluation
- week 93WIA application
- week 104End of sick pay
- Safety expertise and RI&ECare Concernbefore the first day of absence
- Absence case managementArbo Concernweek 1 to 104
- Occupational capacity assessmentPeople Concernonce it is clear that returning to their own work looks unworkable
- Second-track reintegrationGoing Concernafter the advice from the occupational capacity assessment, once own work is no longer workable
When these services start depends on the employee's situation. The timeline gives a rough picture.
Other services
Occupational capacity assessmentWhat can this employee still do, in their own job, elsewhere with you, or outside?People Concern
Second-track reintegrationNo suitable work left inside your organisation? Then we guide the employee towards work elsewhere.Going Concern
Absence case managementAn employability adviser who watches the process and thinks along on the substance.Arbo Concern
Frequently asked questions
Questions about safety expertise
Is your question not here? Call +31 71 401 81 41, weekdays from 09:00 to 17:00.
Does our RI&E always have to be reviewed?
That depends on your size and on whether you use a recognised sector instrument. Small employers using such an instrument are often exempt. The safety expert tells you beforehand whether a review is needed in your case.
Is psychosocial workload part of it too?
Yes. Workload, unwanted behaviour and aggression belong in the RI&E. Care Concern investigates those separately; the occupational physician sees the same signals during consultations.
Who carries it out?
Care Concern, the safety expertise arm within the Arbo Concern group.
Request or information
An occupational physician on your floor soon?
Tell us your region and the cover you have in mind, in half-days or full days. We will contact you within one working day to discuss the options. No obligation.
Also available alongside the physician on site: occupational capacity assessment, second-track reintegration, case management and safety advice. All additional services