Risk Assessment and Control Flashcards
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What is a bow-tie analysis in risk management?
Answer: A visual diagram connecting causes to a hazardous event and the event to its consequences, showing preventive and mitigative barriers
A bow-tie analysis creates a visual diagram with threats on the left, the top event in the center, and consequences on the right, with barriers on both sides.
In quantitative risk assessment, what does 'consequence severity' typically measure?
Answer: The degree of harm or damage resulting from a hazardous event, including injuries, fatalities, property damage, and environmental impact
Consequence severity measures all dimensions of potential harm including human, property, environmental, and business impacts.
What is the purpose of a Job Safety Analysis (JSA)?
Answer: To break a job into steps, identify hazards for each step, and determine preventive measures
A JSA systematically breaks a job into steps, identifies potential hazards at each step, and establishes preventive measures.
What does the term 'inherent risk' refer to in risk assessment?
Answer: The level of risk present before any controls or mitigation measures are applied
Inherent risk is the natural level of risk associated with a process or activity before any risk treatment.
Which technique uses a systematic study of process parameters and their deviations to identify hazards?
Answer: HAZOP (Hazard and Operability Study)
HAZOP uses guide words applied to process parameters to systematically identify deviations that could lead to hazards.
In a fault tree analysis, what does an AND gate represent?
Answer: All events below it must occur simultaneously for the output event to happen
An AND gate means all input events must occur for the output event above the gate to happen.