ANSI/ASSE Z590.3 standard, Prevention

Safety professionals must be aware of the purpose and content of the standard adopted in 2011 titled ANSI/ASSE Z590.3. Prevention through Design Guidelines for Addressing Occupational Hazards and Risks in the Design and Redesign Processes. A review of the requirements of the standard is provided. 

In ANSI/ASSE Z590.3—2011, the Prevention through Design standard, Addendum G comments on only eight hazard analysis and risk assessment techniques, intentionally. They are Preliminary Hazard Analysis, What-If Analysis, Checklist Analysis, What-If Checklist Analysis, Hazard and Operability Analysis, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis, and Management Oversight and Risk Tree (MORT). It was also said in Z590.3 that ... 

Section 7 in ANSI/ASSE Z590.3 is devoted to the hazard analysis and risk assessment process. It is the core of the Prevention through Design standard. The following process outline is a recent work, having been approved by the American National Standards Institute on September 1,2011. In the standard, the narrative for each subject is extensive and is recommended reading. 

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