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Risk assessment
This presentation gives a definition of harm, hazard and risk. The definitions are followed by a description of a risk assessment procedure for a chemical company (description of the system, definition of safe process conditions, identification of systematic hazard and hazard assessment by impact and probability, risk evaluation, establishment of a planning of measures and assessment of the residual risk). The reader will learn how to implement the risk assessment in the process of innovative options identification.
Risk assessment
Content
- Concept of risk assessment
- Risk assessment
- Description of the system
- Definition of safe process conditions
- Hazard identification
- Hazard assessment
- Risk evaluation
- Measures
- Assessment of residual risk
Key Messages
- Risk assessments is realized to obtain essential information on safety and ensure the necessary level of safety for existing or new processes or installations.
- It is composed by 6 main steps:
- Description of the system
- Definition of safe process conditions
- Systematic hazard identification
- Hazard assessment by impact and probability, risk evaluation
- Planning of measures
- Assessment of the residual risk
- The evaluation of the risk remaining despite all the planned safety measures. emergency response measures should be established for accidents that might result from the accepted residual risks.