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Also, the design practice includes P ID documentation, database specification and verification of purchased equipment, control design and performance analysis, software configuration, real-time simulation for DCS system checkout and operator training, reliability studies, interlock classification and risk assessment of safety instrumented systems (SIS), and hazard and operability (HAZOP) studies. 

Risk assessment system For management to make enlightened safety and risk management decisions, accurate, timely risk assessment information must be provided. Risk assessment system factors to be evaluated include... 

There is a widespread view (unfortunately reinforced by some safety standards) that safety is largely a matter of reliability despite the fact that theory and experience have shown this to be fiv too narrow a view of safety (see Sandom and Fowler 2003). What the success case tells us is that one of the first considerations in assessing system safety must be whether the functionality and performance properties of the system are adequate to achieve substantially better than an acceptable level of risk. 

However, the world of risk assessment is in transition. Some systems now in use are three- or four-dimensional, and they require numerical risk scorings. Safety professionals can expect that variations of numerical risk scoring systems will proliferate. Nevertheless, it needs to be said that two-dimensional, qualitative risk assessment systems are not obsolete. Often, a two-dimensional system will be selected because it is sufficient for the hazards and risks encountered and it works well within an organization. This chapter will inform safety professionals on ... 

Hazard analysis and risk assessment systems have been used for many years by certain heavy equipment manufacturers (HEM) in their design processes to achieve inherently safer products. Keep in mind that their principle concern in using the risk assessment method described here is product safety and the avoidance of injury to users of their equipment, or to bystanders. There are variations in the terms used in the several versions of this industry s Hazard Analysis System. In one version, these are the Risk Assessment Variables ... 

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For safety professionals who are interested in a well-written dissertation on Implementing and Deployment of a risk assessment system that impacts on all design decisions, the chapter with that title, chapter 16, in Risk Assessment Challenges and Opportunities is recommended. Bruce Main (2012) has given permission to reprint the following key... 

Risk assessment has been a legal requirement within the EU for some time, but in all its guises it is merely the means to an end. The end is the timely implementation of workable control measures designed to either eliminate or reduce risks to an acceptable or insignificant level. There are many established risk assessment systems. The HSE have developed their Five Steps to Risk Assessment which is largely qualitative in nature. The BSl have included a quantitative risk assessment model in their guide to occupational safety and health management systems. Chapter 2.4 provides an alternative risk assessment model. 

The safety case itself was to be written in accordance with a Ministry of Defence Standard, Def Stan 00-56, which included a requirement for system hazard analysis and risk assessment. The safety case was to have a pyramid structure to be credible, complete, consistent, and comprehensible, comprising four levels ... 

Risk assessment system for verifying the safety guards system based on the HAZOP analysis information... 

Identification of risk assessment system shortfalls It has been shown that almost every accident that occnrs reflects a failnre, in some degree, of the Safety Management System. Where risk assessment/tisk management forms the basis of this system, it follows that the accident has resulted from corresponding shortfalls in the risk assessment/risk management process. 

General management system characteristics in control of the job, so called G-factors. They include Plant policies, implementation of methods, staff, information flow, management services, budgets, and risk assessment system, such as technical information system, hazard analysis, safety program review etc. 

Planning in accordance with the Policy in order to reduce risks by means of risk assessment, planned safety systems of work, method statements and training, is carried out at pre-tender and contract phases. Four weekly safety meetings allow Health Safety issues to be fully considered outside of commercial constraints. 

Process Hazards Analysis. Analysis of processes for unrecogni2ed or inadequately controUed ha2ards (see Hazard analysis and risk assessment) is required by OSHA (36). The principal methods of analysis, in an approximate ascending order of intensity, are what-if checklist failure modes and effects ha2ard and operabiHty (HAZOP) and fault-tree analysis. Other complementary methods include human error prediction and cost/benefit analysis. The HAZOP method is the most popular as of 1995 because it can be used to identify ha2ards, pinpoint their causes and consequences, and disclose the need for protective systems. Fault-tree analysis is the method to be used if a quantitative evaluation of operational safety is needed to justify the implementation of process improvements. 

Transportation should be considered when assessing risks associated with planned or existing plants. The design of new chemical processing units should include at the earliest opportunity a qualitative or quantitative risk assessment of the whole system including production, use, and transportation in order to minimize overall risk. A brief discussion of the inherent safety aspects of transportation is included in Chapter 5. 

The SPEAR framework to be described in subsequent sections is designed to be used either as a stand-alone methodology, to provide an evaluation of the human sources of risk in a plant, or in conjunction with hardware orientated analyses to provide an overall system safety assessment. The overall structure of the framework is set out in Figure 5.4. 

The objective of consequence analysis is to evaluate the safety (or quality) consequences to the system of any human errors that may occur. Consequence Analysis obviously impacts on the overall risk assessment within which the human reliability analysis is embedded. In order to address this issue, it is necessary to consider the nature of the consequences of human error in more detail. 

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