In 2020 during the onsets of the pandemic EU-OSHA has developed this tailored tool to support safe working conditions under COVID-19 restrictions. In 2021 this revised version has been published, now covering a broader range of activities and including more information on testing and vaccination. The interactive tool can help in identifying, assessing and managing the risks posed by COVID-19 and ensuring that workers come back to a safe and healthy environment. It includes information on how to handle crucial aspects like physical distancing and hygenic measures. It further covers a range of situations, including what to do if a worker has COVID-19 symptoms, travelling to and from work safely and managing external service providers.    

This tool is created for small and medium laundries including washing, dry cleaning, stain cleaning, ironing, and steam ironing.

This tool deals with companies within the cleaning services sector. The main difficulty of these companies is that  employees must clean the offices of other companies and therefore, it is more difficult to assess all risks at their workplaces. The tool is focused on the hazardous works, including working at heights during the cleaning of the big windows, the use of chemicals at work and so on. The tool can also be used by companies which have their own employees/cleaners.

This OiRA tool is suitable for small and medium-sized garages. Car repair work include a lot of different and dangerous working operations. Therefore, the workers are exposed to different risks which are directly dependent on the working operations. This tool allows assess to the main risks in this sector of economic activity, such as body painting, body repair, welding and others. Thanks to this OiRA tool the workers are aware of all potential hazards at the workplace and know the preventive measures to reduce or eliminate the risk.

This tool deals with general office cleaning. Office cleaning is performed in different work environments in various kinds of buildings. Therefore the types of risks to which cleaning workers are exposed are also specific to the premises they work in. Should the risk assessment be carried out in offices located in specific premises like laboratories, hospitals, etc. additional risks would need to be considered (for instance exposure to biological risks, radiations, etc.). This tool has been developed at EU level and may serve as a basis when developing an OiRA cleaning tool at national level. This implies that specific changes are needed for national adaptions (e.g. national legislation). The solutions the tool offers are meant to be understood as suggestions.