Risk assessment teams

Percentage of risk assessment teams meeting qualification/experience requirements X... 

The SIS safety requirements specification may be a single document or a collection of several documents including procedures, drawings or corporate standard practices. These requirements may be developed by the Hazard and Risk Assessment team and/or the project team itself. 

Initiator s assessment of potential impact of the change on the organization s ability to control process hazards Proposed risk assessment team members Plan for implementation of the change... 

A risk assessment team was convened to consider the chemically related risks in a particular process in the overall system. 

A tour of the area under consideration by the risk assessment team is an essential part of hazard identification as is consultation with the relevant section of the workforce. 

Employers and responsible persons need to determine who should be part of the risk assessment team. A team approach is often the most effective way to ensure that all the appropriate risks have been identified, this is because ... 

An effective risk assessment team could therefore involve any or all of the following ... 

Whether the risk assessment team operated effectively. 

The fire risk assessor, or fire risk assessment team, will benefit from having a range of documentation readily available prior to, during and following the practical risk assessment process (visual observation, verbal information gathering, etc.). The range of documentation that may provide key information for the fire risk assessment process is likely to include ... 

It is likely that the risk assessor (risk assessment team) will have been provided with a large number of supporting documents, the majority of which are detailed earlier within this chapter. It would appear from the example that the only issue to deal with is the obstruction of an alarm sounder which can be addressed immediately by the removal of the obstruction. To support this... 

The first step of the risk assessment itself is the risk identification (see Figure 21.1, point 2). In this context the PTO representatives need to precisely identify the potential threats and their connected risk scenarios that can have an impact on the PT system. Risks shall be categorized according to their nature, and grouped into the relevant risk families - e.g. security risks, safety risks, environmental risks, etc. (see Figure 21.2). The amount of security levels to be studied depends directly on the level of detail the risk assessment team would like to reach. 

The second step consists of defining several key main parameters (and then-levels) against which the threats and assets are subsequently measured. As said, definitions are based on a qualitative approach consequently, they can be adapted by the different risk assessment teams according to their needs. 

The next pillar is risk evaluation (see Figure 21.1, point 4), where the risk analysis results are obtained and analyzed. Based on the findings, the risk assessment team can thus define the threats and/or the risk scenarios which need to be assessed in more detail. It is strongly advised that these threats are dealt with by the more specialized working groups within the risk assessment team. 

It is easy to see how the approach can be used to identify what the risk assessment team consider important controls which have or have not been considered in the design. Actions can then be placed to ensure additional measures are taken during the design process. It is also evident from this example how what is essentially a slip/lapse error (that is, accidental activation) has been (correctly) addressed largely by design details which will reduce the likelihood of the error occurring. Equally, it can be readily appreciated how such an approach will reduce the opportunity for designed-in error potential. 

A risk assessment team was estabhshed consisting of a mechanical engineer, the colliery safety engineer, an tmdemtartager, a deputy and a locomotive driver and facilitated by the Head of Ergonomics and Safety Management. 

The first action of the risk assessment team was to draw up a detailed operational sequence with all the associated activities for each of these options. Once this was done, the team focused on identifying the main operational hazards which were agreed as follows ... 

Breasting operation - the only additional concern identified related to a general concern about breasting the locos into the FSV transhipment area (although no specific risks were identified, the risk assessment team were all uncomfortable on this issue). 

---