Safety Managemen systems Flashcards
Loss Control
Proactive measures taken to prevent or reduce loss from an accident, injury, illness, and property damage. The goal is to reduce the frequency and severity of losses. Loss control is directly related to Human Resources management, engineering and risk management practices.
Risk
The combination of severity and frequency (think of COP risk ranking). The technique that effectively decreases a project’s schedule risk without increasing the overall risk is to incorporate slack time into the project’s critical path schedule early in project planning.
Hazard
Any real or potential condition that can cause injury, illness, or death to personnel; damage to or loss of a system, equipment, or property; or damage to the environment. It’s any potential unsafe condition resulting from failures, malfunctions, external events, errors, or a combination. It’s any condition, set of circumstances, or inherent property damage that can cause injury, illness, or death.
Probability
The likelihood of a hazard causing an incident.
Severity
The extent of a harm or damage that could result from a hazard-related incident or exposure.
Risk analysis
Process of identifying safety risks. Involving identifying hazards that present mishap risk with an assessment of the risk probability.
Risk assessment
Process of determining the risk presented by the identified hazards. This involves evaluating the identified hazard’s causal factors then characterizing the risk as the product of the hazard severity times the hazard probability.
Safety
Freedom from conditions that can cause death, injury, occupational illness, damage to or loss of equipment or property, or damage to the environment. The ability of a system to exclude certain undesired events during stated operation under stated conditions for a stated time, and the ability of a system or product to operate with a known and accepted level of mishap risk. It is a built-in system charactersitic
Exposure
Contact with or proximity to a hazard, taking into account duration and intensity.
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
The process of identifying the basic lowest level causal factors for an event. Usually the event is an undesired event, like a hazard or mishap.
Risk communication
The interactive process of exchanging risk information and opinions among stakeholders.
Risk management
The process by which assessed risks are mitigated, minimized, or controlled through engineering, management, or operational means. This involves the optimal distribution and use of available resources in support of safety, performance, cost, and schedule.
Unacceptable Risk
Risk that cannot be tolerated.
Acceptable Risk
Risk that is allowed to be taken without further engineering or management action to eliminate or reduce the risk. The risk has been reduced to an acceptable level. The user is consciously exposed to this risk.
Accepted Risk
2 parts. 1.) risk that is knowingly understood and accepted by the system developer or user and 2.) risk that is not known or understood and is accepted by default.
