Risk management plan/documentation

These facilities, belonging to one of eight industrial classes, will be required to iinpleinent and document tlie full RMP rule. Tliis will include liazard assessment, preventive steps, emergency preparation and response (see next cliapter) and a risk management plan. ... 

A short synopsis of the overall emergency management structure, how other industrial emergency response, contingency, and risk management plans fit into the ERP for chemical emergencies, and applicable policies, procedures, actions plans, and reference documents should be cited. Policies should include interconnect agreements with adjacent communities and just how the ERP may affect them. 

Risk Management Plan A document prepared by a pharmaceutical company specifying what is and is not known about the safety of a product, what is planned to extend safety knowledge and how known risks will be minimised (see p. 69). 

Preparation of a written risk management plan to document the risk management program. The plans are submitted to designated agencies and available to the public. 

ERPs do not necessarily need to be one document. They may consist of an overview document, individual emergency action procedures, checklists, additions to existing operations manuals, appendices, etc. There may be separate, more detailed plans for specific incidents. There may be plans that do not include particularly sensitive information and those that do. Existing applicable documents should be referenced in the ERP (e.g., chemical Risk Management Program, contamination response). 

Risk visibility The documentation of a risk related to hardware, operations, procedures, software, and environment that provides Safety, project offices, and program management with the ability to evaluate accepted risks associated with planned operations (NSTS 22254). 

In the planning processes, occupational health and safety management systems issues are identified, analyzed, and prioritized. Those issues are defined in the standard as hazards, risks, management system deficiencies and opportunities for improvement. After the identification and analysis process, objectives are then to be established that offer the greatest opportunities for improvement. The following steps are to draft a documented implementation plan to achieve the objectives and to allocate the necessary resources. 

The problem of information of documents is compounded by the fact that there is so much information in system and software specifications, while only a small subset of it may be relevant in any given context (Leveson 2000). Risk management should be considered as a control function focused on maintaining a particular hazardous, productive process within its boundaries of safe operation and that a systems approach based on control theoretic concepts should be applied to describe the overall system functions (Rasmussen 1997). Systems are viewed as interrelated components that are kept in a state of dynamic equilibrium by feedback loops of information and control (Dulac and Leveson 2004). The management of risk requires that there is a comprehensive, structured plan in place with clear responsibilities and authority, which consistently reduces risk to an acceptable level that can be tolerated by all concerned and insures that the integrity of risk reduction is maintained throughout the life of the process (Mostia 2009). 

NSPE. 2010. Professional Liability/Risk Management Brief Project Documentation During the Planning and Design Phase. PEPP Talk, February. 

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