ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the appeal of risk analysis in German work safety inspections, explaining the emergence of a common, but relatively broad-brush, model for inspection planning in the absence of EU coercion. It details how an initially instrumental template, trialed in some forerunner states, was mainstreamed via horizontal coordination as legitimacy-seeking states sought to defend statutory inspections and their decentral organization against mounting criticism. Given the lasting squeeze on statutory work safety inspections, state inspectorates have also started promoting risk analysis to counter the weakness of the public inspection mandate, and to possibly ringfence and expand resources based on risk.
