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Risk management, risk assessment and the hierarchy of risk control are slowly gaining acceptance in the electrical community as an effective and sustainable approach to improve workplace electrical safety. What is risk management, risk assessment and the hierarchy of risk control? How can they be applied in a practical way to electrical safety in the petrochemical industry?
The 2015 editions of NFPA 70E and CSA Z462 have taken a significant step forward by integrating Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems and Risk Management principles. This paper will explore how this changes and advances the electrical safety culture and enables sustainable improvement in prevention of electrical incidents and injuries. The paper will also discuss how these changes can...
Occupational Health & Safety Management System (OHSMS) Standards such as ANSI Z10 provide a framework for an employer to manage and continuously improve occupational health and safety performance.
Most occupational health and safety professionals understand the difference between “hazard” and “risk.” However, the distinction between these terms is not well understood in the electrical industry where the terms are often used interchangeably. This gap between these two groups of professionals needs to be bridged to ensure electrical hazards and the risks arising from those hazards are effectively...
Based on the safety reliability of food logistics, an output storage system, Min-safety Reliability First Out (MRFO) for perishable foods within the cold chain is developed. In this system, the batch of food with the smallest remaining safety reliability is delivered out of storage first. This system on the basis of product's time-temperature history which is recorded by time temperature integrators...
Medical device manufacturers are responsible for ensuring that their medical products are safe. However, safe does not mean zero risk. A safe product is one that has reasonable risks, given the magnitude of the benefit expected an d the alternatives available. Medical device manufacturers, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and medical device users have an important role to play in maintaining...
In the field of nuclear technology risk assessment due to inadvertent release of radioactivity during mal-operation of a reactor is an important task from the point of risk informed decision making to implement the appropriate protective measures during a radiation emergency. Probabilistic method of risk analysis may not be appropriate due to lack of data or difficulty to specify the appropriate probability...
The venture investment is a kind of investment behavior with high-risk. Recognizing the extent of risk in the investment projects can increase the confidence at the venture investment enterprises and projects. This paper analyzes the type and nature of venture investment, deems that market risk and management risk is the center of attention that venture investment focuses on, and also considers that...
This paper first expounds the meaning and theoretical basis of risk estimation and the possible deviation therein; then educes the process of risk estimation; and finally, based on the analysis on the risk factors of investment in real estate projects, establishes the multi-hierarchy evaluation indicator system and provides the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model.
The term Hazard/Risk Evaluation is misunderstood. Some believe the procedures they have in place make up a hazard/risk evaluation. A Hazard/Risk Evaluation is a thought process. Many have struggled with how to address the requirement for an evaluation contained in NFPAreg 70E [1]. Many believe that Risk Management meets this requirement. This paper will provide one definition for what a Hazard/Risk...
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