Continuous Risk Management

Hendershot, D. C. (1991b). The Use of Ouantitative Risk Assessment in the Continuing Risk Management of a Chlorine Handling Facility. The Analysis, Communication, and Perception of Risk, ed. B. J. Garrick, and W. C. Gekler, 555-65. New York Plenum Press. 

System safety concepts promote the establishment of policies and procedures that are to achieve an effective, orderly, and continuous risk management process for the design, development, installation, and maintenance of all facilities, materials, hardware, tooling, equipment, and products, and for their eventual disposal. 

Risk and security concerns are not a one-time issue but require continuous risk management. Helferich and Cook (2002) found that this is necessary because, for example ... 

Figure 8.1 Overview of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Continuous Risk Management Process.

Describe NASA s Continuous Risk Management Process. 

The remaining Sections e.xainine tluce important topics as tliey relate to the subject title of tliis book. Section 2.7 reviews the details of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency s (USEPA s) Risk Management Program while Section 2.8 provides information on the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA). The chapter continues with a short Section (2.9) on potential environmental violations and then concludes with a Section (2.10) on tlic Pollution Prevention Act of 1990. 

Not surprisingly, there is no agreed definition of the risk management process. The associated issues and interactions can be very complex, and much effort continues to go into defining how they can be characterised. It is however possible to sketch the overall process into a coherent architecture, based on the principles of ... 

Risk management is a continuous process as was highlighted in Chapter 5, the consequences and frequency of an event are highly condition dependent. As a result, managing risk requires that conditions that may increase event severity or likelihood are adequately controlled. For example, if crane safety programs are not followed, the frequency of occurrence of dropped loads or overturned cranes may increase. This could result in substantially increased risk of piping failure and material release. 

The EPA Risk Management Plan (RMP) defines a worst-case scenario as the catastrophic release of the entire process inventory in a 10-min period (assumed to be a continuous release). The dispersion calculations must be completed assuming F stability and 1.5 m/s wind speed. As part of the RMP rule, each facility must determine the downwind distance to a toxic endpoint. These results must be reported to the EPA and to the surrounding community. 

The search for previously unrecognized chemical reactivity hazards and places where inadequate safeguards exist is an activity that continues throughout the product/plant life cycle. Chemical reactivity hazards and risk management... 

Risk analysis, like most scientific disciplines is subject to continual evolution. This means that methods and concepts that are in common use today may well become discredited and obsolete in the future. This presents a problem for risk managers because it creates the impression that everything done before was somehow wrong . In fact, most changes are gradual and tend to take effect at... 

While these contending forces will no doubt continue to contend, and to confuse the public, we should hope that mainstream science and thoughtful risk management policies will prevail. The risk assessment framework is central in the continuing search for the right balance point in these debates. 

Proper investigation and documentation of near misses demonstrates that the company is behaving responsibly to learn lessons and continually improve risk management. 

Also at this meeting which included, as well as he above, WHO, EFTA and the self-medication industries, work continued on the text of a guideline on Quality Risk Management for the pharmaceutical industry (Draft 4 was produced and will be finalised in April 2005) Other topics discussed included Pharmacopoeial Convergence/ )... 

Life cycle management and change control provide a mechanism for continuous improvement. To support continuous improvement through change control a quality system would need to be based on principles of manufacturing science and risk-management. The proposed ICH QIO guidance is an opportunity to accomplish this task. 

Risk management is especially important for the presentation of process improvement proposals to management where resources are required. The ability to quantify risk and demonstrate continuous improvement benefits is essential to project... 

After years of experiments and the nonetheless effective use of these tools making it possible to refine and systematically optimise control of facilities, the tools due to increased performance and possibilities made available by software and other computer equipment, has been improved by increasing the calculation horizon, beyond two gas years by using adapted models (closer to classic reservoir models by taking into account a simplified physical representation). At the present stage with R D works still continuing, they now include more and more complexity (risk management, stochastic simulations, etc), and works are focused on ... 

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