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Maintaining native rainforests as a sustainable ecosystem and their resilience to external
pressures involves their economic profitability as a natural resource of unique and renewable products.
For this purpose, new approaches have been developed and refined. This work seeks to contribute in
this direction in the context of occupational safety and health (OSH) by presenting a new method
for integrated assessment of risks for rainforests (MIARforest). The MIARforest is based on the MIAR,
a method that has shown promising results in occupational risk assessment in different industrial
sectors. Its parameters were discussed and assessed to improve their relevance, wording and risk
assessment through the Delphi methodology by a panel of 62 experts in forestry and OSH who
responded independently to questionnaires made available through Google Forms. A consensus of
over 79% among the experts was reached in two rounds. This result highlights the high objectivity
and the low percentage of dubious possible interpretations of the parameters and sub-parameters of
this occupational risk assessment method.
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Keywords
risk assessment occupational risk native forest forest management MIAR Delphi
Citation
Lima, K.; Meira Castro, A.C.; Baptista, J.S. Occupational Risk Assessment in Native Rainforest Management (MIARforest)— Parameters Definition and Validation. Sustainability 2023, 15, 6794. https:// doi.org/10.3390/su15086794
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MDPI Headquarters