Risk Assessment and Risk Acceptance

2005 ◽  
pp. 121-133
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Acceptance

A Comparison of Machine Risk Acceptance Results Among Trained Users of ANSI B11-TR3

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Etherton
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Iterative Process ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Acceptable Risk ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
The World ◽  
Company Culture ◽  
Local Risk ◽  
Risk Acceptance ◽  
A Company

The ANSI guideline on machine risk assessment, B11-TR3, describes risk assessment as an iterative process. This implies that protective measures of varied levels of technology can be successively evaluated until a risk that is acceptable is attained. The theories of risk acceptance are many. Reducing risk to a level that is agreed to be 'as low as reasonably practicable' (ALARP) is said to give focus to making a decision about when risk has been adequately reduced. Main (2004) says that "Although the concept of acceptable risk is becoming more commonly adopted throughout the world, a single level of acceptability cannot be universally applied. Acceptable risk is a function of many factors, and is specific to a company, culture, and time-era." Fischhoff et al. (1981) have argued that "the risk associated with the most acceptable option is not acceptable in any absolute sense. One accepts options, not risks, which are only one feature of options." This paper describes risk assessment groups in five manufacturing workplaces and discusses training that led to acceptable risk decisions for a hazardous machine system in each workplace. The composition of the five teams in this study ranged from a team with just a single engineer to teams involving several workplace personnel. The applied preventive measures ranged from measures that were tailored to meet corporate safety goals to measures that evolved from the local risk assessment team's ingenuity. The paper concludes with suggestions on how to make the risk acceptance concept meaningful in the training of future machine risk assessment teams.

Risk Sharing in a Partnership

2017 ◽  
pp. 115-152
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Sharing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Risk Awareness ◽  
Acceptable Risk ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Managerial Resources ◽  
Risk Acceptance ◽  
Risk Taker ◽  
Developing Strategies

Risk sharing is an activity which integrates recognition of risk, awareness of a party's capability, risk assessment, and developing strategies to accept and own the risk using managerial resources. Some traditional risk sharing philosophy is focused on taking risk of a lesser costs to the risk taker. Proper risk sharing, on the other hand, focuses on taking and acceptable risk within the capacity of the party to manage. Objective of proper risk sharing is to reduce the possibility the risk taker would not perform the part of the bargain. It may refer to numerous types of measures a partner would undertake to ensure the risk taken does not prevent the partner from performing part of the bargain. The chapter describes the different steps in risk sharing process which methods are used in the different steps, and provides some examples for risk acceptance and risk sharing that can be pursued by a partner.

scholarly journals PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF RISK ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA DEVELOPMENT IN MARITIME SHIPPING / PRAKTYCZNE ASPEKTY OKREŚLANIA KRYTERIÓW AKCEPTOWALNOŚCI RYZYKA W ŻEGLUDZE MORSKIEJ

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-98
Author(s):  
Teresa Abramowicz-Gerigk ◽  
Zbigniew Burciu ◽  
Piotr Kaminski
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Safety Management Systems ◽  
Acceptable Risk ◽  
Acceptance Criteria ◽  
Risk Levels ◽  
Maritime Shipping ◽  
Risk Acceptance

Abstract The paper presents practical aspects of development of acceptable risk levels in maritime shipping with respect to the cooperation of parties involved in maritime safety, commonly used risk acceptance principles, criteria and uncertainties related to their development. The results of analysis of risk assessment methods used for potentially hazardous operations on board ships performed on the basis of extensive studies on the onboard safety management systems is presented. The merits and drawbacks of the approach used in the development of risk acceptance criteria in onboard safety management systems are discussed.

scholarly journals Preliminary System Safety Hazard Analysis of a Transport Helicopter SHM System

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-31
Author(s):  
Sławomir Klimaszewski ◽  
Krzysztof Sajda ◽  
Sergiusz Szawłowski
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Structural Health Monitoring ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Hazard Analysis ◽  
Assessment Methodology ◽  
System Safety ◽  
Safety Hazard ◽  
Risk Acceptance ◽  
Acceptance Levels ◽  
Risk Assessment Methodology

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to provide the Mi-8/17 helicopter Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) System Preliminary System Safety Hazard Analysis (PSSHA). The PSSHA identifies and classifies potential hazards, and the actions necessary to reduce or eliminate the risks resulting from the installation and operation of SHM System on board of the helicopter. The overall objective of the PSSHA is to establish that the potential Mi 8/17 helicopter modification does not introduce unacceptable hazard conditions to both the helicopter and personnel. The MIL-STD-882 risk assessment methodology is applied to assess hazards and risk acceptance levels for both hardware and software elements of the SHM system.

scholarly journals Risk-Acceptance Criteria in Occupational Health and Safety Risk-Assessment—The State-of-the-Art through a Systematic Literature Review

Safety ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Panagiotis K. Marhavilas ◽  
Dimitrios E. Koulouriotis
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Risk Level ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Acceptance Criteria ◽  
Risk Acceptance

The utilization of risk acceptance criteria (RAC) can help a business to judge whether the risk level concerning any process involved in its working environment is acceptable or not, especially when the risk has a significant societal impact. Thus, the main intention of this study is to make known the current state-of-the-art concerning RACs and to propose new interpretations of it by surveying, for first time, the scientific literature about the RACs associated with the occupational health and safety (OHS) risk-assessment methodologies (RAA). A second objective of this work is the attainment of a prediction for the evolution of the quantity of the publications concerning OHS-RACs, and a third one is the derivation of an algorithm (via a flow-chart) in order to illustrate the process of the formation of new OHS-RACs. The work consists of two parts, (a) exploring and presenting methods of developing RACs in OHS; (b) classifying, analyzing, and benchmarking relevant published scientific articles by surveying the Scopus data base with proper search-hints, through a time interval of 20 years (January2000–December 2019). The review has defined a plethora of RAC-papers with reference to OHS, which is a remarkable percentage in comparison with the other fields aggregated, and this outcome proves that the issue of utilizing RACs is fundamental for the field of OHS. Additionally, it has been deduced that, day after day, there is an increasing tendency for the scientific community to develop and use RACs in the field of occupational safety, as this is evident by their frequent reference to the risk analysis and assessment (RAA) process. Our specific research methodology has been compatible with the PRISMA protocol. A prediction for the evolution of the quantity of the OHS-RAC publications is also given by confirming the Poisson stochastic process. Finally, we propose a generic guideline framework that can contribute to the establishment of new empirically-generated OHS-RACs.

Risk assessment in dentistry

1998 ◽  
Vol 62 (10) ◽  
pp. 756-761 ◽  
Author(s):  
CW Douglass
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment
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