Hazard identification assessment system

Over the years there have been several comprehensive hazard identification studies carried out on railway systems in the UK that could be utilised to avoid the need for further detailed hazard identification assessments. It has, however, still been necessary to develop a full list of hazardous events and their associated precursors for inclusion in the SRM. 

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An opportimity for error recovery would have been to implement a checking stage by a supervisor or independent worker, since this was a critical maintenance operation. However, this had not been done. Another aspect of the unforgiving environment was the vulnerability of the system to a single human error. The fact that the critical water jacket flow was dependent upon a single pump was a poor design that would have been detected if a hazard identification technique such as a hazard and operability study (HAZOP) had been used to assess the design. 

Hazard assessment is A process designed to determine the possible adverse effects of an agent or simation to which an organism, system or (sub) population could be exposed. The process includes hazard identification and hazard characterization. The process focuses on the hazard in contrast to risk assessment where exposure assessment is a distinct additional step. ... 

Hazard identification is the first stage in hazard assessment or risk assessment, which consists of identifying substances of concern and the adverse effects they may have on target systems under certain conditions of exposure (OECD/IPCS, 2001). 

Hazard identification, as defined by IPCS, is the identification of the inherent capability of a substance to cause adverse effects when an organism, system, or (sub)population is exposed to that substance (see Figure 21). The challenge in life stage risk assessment is not only to identify the hazard but to determine, in the later... 

Health risk assessment is defined as tlie process or procedure used to estimate tlie likelihood that humans or ecological systems will be adversely affected by a chemical or physical agent under a specific set of conditions. Tlie health risk evaluation process consists of four steps hazard identification, dose-response assessment or liazard assessment, exposure assessment, and risk characterization. 

Hazard identification is the step in the risk assessment that qualitatively characterizes the inherent toxicity of a chemical. Scientific data are evaluated to establish a possible causal relationship between the occurrence of adverse health effects and chemical exposure. This step includes characterization of acute, subchronic, and chronic effects the potential for local versus systemic effects the influence of the route of exposure the relevance, to humans, of effects seen in animals an evaluation of the biological importance of the observed effects the likelihood of the effects occurring under certain conditions and the potential implications for public health. This step should be based on a thorough review of all the data that may provide information that is relevant to evaluating the potential chemical hazard. This may include data describing the effects on a variety of test animals, in vitro studies that characterize mechanisms of toxicity, metabolism, physiologically based pharmacokinetic studies, structure-activity relationships, short-term human studies, and epidemiological studies. Animal studies may focus on particular types of effects and may include reproductive toxicity studies,... 

The major change is in Section 4.3.1 - Environmental Aspects under ISO 14001 and Planning for hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control under OHSAS 18001. OHSAS is much more detailed and prescriptive in how hazards are identified, and how risks are identified, assessed and controlled compared to how aspects and impacts are managed under ISO 14001. The environmental benefits derived from implementation of ISO14001 would similarly be expected to be realized by including occupational health and safety into the applicability of an environmental management system. For the record, many organizations have chosen to add occupational health and safety into the scope of their ISO 14001 EMS. 

IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System) contains hazard identification and dose-response assessments for over 500 chemicals. 

However, hazard identification alone does very little to protect human health—it is only the start of the process. When a chemical has been identified as a potential skin sensitizer, then unless it is banned from use, the risk that it presents must be assessed and managed. To achieve this, it is vital to characterize the relative potency of the identified sensitizer, not least since the currently available evidence indicates that this may vary over perhaps five orders of magnitude [25, 26]. As mentioned earlier, this has been successfully achieved using the LLNA EC3 value [27-34], Consequently, various workers have begun to compare the predictions from in vitro methods to this potency measure (e.g., [82, 85]). It would be preferable though to develop predictive systems in vitro which deliver information on the relative potency of skin sensitizers in humans rather than in mice. To this end, a... 

Placenta perfusion system Hitman ex vivo model to assess transplacental transfer and metabolism Hazard identification that could affect fertility... 

The U.S. EPA approach to risk assessments for toxic chemicals follows the format described by the NRC. Because Hazard Identification and Dose-Response Assessment for an agent do not depend upon specific local situations, EPA assumes that risk assessors evaluating specific sites will not conduct independent analyses in these areas but will instead rely on the results of peer-reviewed evaluations by qualified authorities in toxicology. EPA is assembling an agency-wide database of such authoritative assessments, the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS). 

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