Risk mitigation measure

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These types of benchmarking issues can be used to identify other issues that may require further analysis due to the potential for severe consequences or higher perceived likelihood for an accident. The issues identified through a qualitative analysis can be directly used as inputs in a semi-quantitative analysis with a focus on developing a better understanding of these issues and their influence on the level of risk, and need for additional risk mitigation measures. 

Ethylene oxide railcar receipts and the pesticide (non-bulk) shipments were identified as lower risk and no additional risk mitigation measures were recommended by the team. Risk ranking of III and IV, respectively. 

Whereas Step 1 is very conservative and nearly no compound fulfils the relevant requirements when using these PEC-values (Predicted Environmental Concentration), calculations with Step 2 tools lead to a more realistic exposure assessment. However, often even more realistic model calculations are needed for the 10 representative surface water scenarios of Step 3 to come to safe use within EU. Whereas in the first two steps, a 30-cm deep static waterbody is used, a few additional types are covered in Step 3. Usually only one PEC is calculated for one use and all relevant exposure routes together. In Step 4, even more specific scenarios have recently been made available which are also useful in connection with the setting of risk mitigation measures [5]. However, currently it is not... 

If predicted exposure is higher than toxicity (including the relevant imcertainty factor) for the most sensitive species and endpoint, an unacceptable risk is expected but a refinement of the assessment is possible (famous unless clauses of Annex VI). Another frequently used option is to set risk mitigation measures like buffer zones to protect aquatic life but also arthropods and plants. 

These elements are of different nature. Asset life-cycle docinnents the main phases of the life of the asset and its driving parameter is time. Implementation procediues and processes correspond to conceptual representations of actions and activities to carry out. Technologies are technical implementations enabling the deployment of the processes and the procediues during one ormore hfe cycle phases. Performance control and risk mitigation measures are conceptual and technical realizations of measures to implement when the asset performance exceeds the normal operational conditions. 

During the initial screening of the asset, a variety of data can be collected. By way of example, known information on existing characteristics and features of a particular asset can be obtained. The asset can then be broken down into subsystems, and each subsystem can be analyzed to identify mechanisms that can potentially lead to the loss of asset performance in terms of capacity, injectivity, and containment (process). The mechanisms can then be evaluated and ranked, and appropriate mitigation measures can be determined for some or all of the mechanisms (risk mitigation measures). Uncertainties can also be identified and characterization needs and solutions can be prioritized. 

Categorisation of waters and areas of operation Work boats - Categories of certification at sea (Moth, 1998) Example of risk mitigation measures for lifting operations employed by one contractor... 

Box 5.3. Example of risk mitigation measures for lifting operations employed by one contractor... 

The standard has both general and detailed requirements. General requirements include documentation of the system safety approach, identification of hazards, risk assessment, identification of risk mitigation measures, reduction of risk to an acceptable level, verification of risk reduction, review of hazards and acceptance of residual risk, and tracking of hazards and residual risk. When a government contract specifies MIL-STD-882D and no other requirement, only the general requirements apply. 

Risk mitigation measures The product-line reference architecture may offer a number of options for mitigating certain risks CRiskMitig). Not all these options may be selected for each product. Consequently, the product-line safety argument needs to accommodate variation concerning how each derived product may mitigate its associated risks. 

Facilitates the identification of all relevant risk mitigation measures, and taking credit for them in the assessment. 

Occasionally industry managers have attempted to show that the risk mitigation measures that are in place are too stringent and that they could be reduced (with the consequent savings) without crossing into the area of unacceptable risk. 

ABSTRACT The fire protection and Safety in urban property is a sensitive and important topic, even more so in the context of older buildings that tend to be more vulnerable. In this case, fire risk analysis needs to be carried out, in order to ascertain safety levels, weaknesses, and hence adequate risk mitigation measures. The application of the assessment methodology of fire risk proposed, MARIEE, can be of high interest in developing a classification that can be applied to new and old buildings or those that will be targeted for rehabilitation processes. 

Based on extrapolated judgmental assessment of frequency of safety consequence arising from a hazard, missing the consequence analysis and, therefore, not covering the intricacies of all risk mitigation measures nor including the related consequences of other hazards. 

Nonetheless such a situation is not typical of India alone—many industrialized western European countries have encountered similar challenges in the past and evolved systematic methods for assessing risk from hazardous industries which then led to the adoption of suitable risk reduction strategies (Pasman and Reniers, 2013). In order to assess cumulative risk arising from a cluster of hazardous industrial establishments and to evaluate options for area level risk mitigation measures, few studies were carried out in countries like Netherlands, UK and Italy during the 1970 s. Some examples of these studies include those undertaken in Rijnmond, the Netherlands, Canvey Island in the UK and the Ravenna area in Italy etc. But then, it is only after the accidents in Bhopal... 

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