Assessment of occupational risks from human health and environmental perspectives: a new integrated approach and its application using fuzzy BWM and fuzzy MAIRCA
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improving their operations with a view to human health and environmental awareness. Many methods with different
rationales have been existed in the literature to prioritize hazards according to their risk levels and to mitigate their
consequences. In this study, a new model is developed for occupational risk assessment by merging two well-known multicriteria decision-making methods named best and worst method (BWM) and multi attribute ideal real comparative analysis
(MAIRCA) under fuzzy environment. The proposed model differentiates from other similar models by three aspects. First,
it considers severity of a hazard and its associated risk from the human and environmental riskiness perspectives. Secondly,
it applies fuzzy BWM (F-BWM) to calculate the relative importance of three risk factors named as ‘‘probability, frequency
and severity’’ of traditional Fine–Kinney method. Thirdly, it applies fuzzy MAIRCA (F-MAIRCA) to rank hazards
according to their risk level using importance values obtained by F-BWM. To show applicability of the approach, a case
study of risk assessment in a marble factory is fulfilled. Additionally, a number of validation studies including benchmarking analysis with fuzzy VIKOR and fuzzy TOPSIS methods; a sensitivity analysis by varying importance weights of
risk factors are carried out to highlight the solidity of the proposed approach.
