**6. Conclusion**

This paper describes the SMEs knowledge and knowledge management key processes, the professional risk assessment as part of SMEs risk management process and presents a method to build knowledge based system to assess the profesional risks, starting from a SMEs knowledge management framework. Every business decision involves an element of risk (Lam, 2003). General idea that shows the importance of this system of occupational risks assessment consists in the fact that nothing can be achieved without a motivated/interested staff. The new methods, technologies, tools, techniques can be implemented only with the people and for people. It is particularly important that any technique or method to be presented by such a way as to appear in the eyes of the staff as a useful tool, and not as a tool for monitoring employee activity or suppressing it. In the European countries more then 95% of the companies are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and majority of the European Union employees work in these companies. In Romania just few SMEs develop proper risk measure and cover mechanisms. Regarding our companies the RMP in the majority of annual report of Top 15 BSE (Bucharest Stock Exchange) Romanian listed companies 60 % are in an incipient stage of implementation, only 40 % of this Top 15 companies have already defined their objectives regarding risk management or already have an integrated system of risk management (Blidisel et al., 2008). According to legislation in safety and health, all employers should periodically assess the occupational risks. The main goal of the occupational risk assessment is to protect workers, helping to maintain competitiveness and enterprise productivity.

This work realized at the UPB - PREMINV Research Centre, in University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, is focusing on a university – small and medium-sized enterprise partnership. The validation of this methodology by a case study in the PROGPROC project (CNMP 11014/2007 – between 2007-2010) is to create a support system for resources planning and programming activities according to manufacturing processes management in virtual organizations. The future work in this area includes building other knowledge bases to evaluate eventually other SMEs activities who involve risks.
