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Document ID (ISN)76636
CIS number 01-748
ISSN - Serial title Industrial Relations Journal
Year 2000
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Ali M.K.
Title Hazards management
Bibliographic information July-Aug. 2000, Vol.17, No.4, p.63-65; 67-69.
Abstract This article on hazards management considers the four basic steps of identification, assessment, control and recovery under the following headings: workplace hazard assessment, including workplace inspection, criteria for the selection of jobs to be assessed, describing jobs as a sequence of steps and identifying workplace hazards; process hazard assessment, including process hazard identification, consequences analysis, process hazard review, preliminary hazard analysis, "what if" analysis, hazard and operability (HAZOP) studies, failure modes analysis, inspection, control and employee behaviour; hazard prevention and control, including periodic reviews; hazards recovery and contingency planning.
Descriptors (primary) major hazards; safety planning; plant safety organization
Descriptors (secondary) hazard criteria; safety consciousness; hazardous locations; hazard evaluation; dangerous equipment; human behaviour; dangerous work
Document type D - Periodical articles
Country / State or ProvincePakistan
Subject(s)
Broad subject area(s) General safety, health and conditions of work
Browse category(ies) Major hazards
Safety programmes