Safety definitions | HSE definitions | A - D

                                              SAFETY DEFINITIONS OR HSE DEFINITIONS

                                                     SAFETY DEFINITIONS | A – D

            

Safety definitions

SAFETY DEFINITIONS | A – D

SAFETY DEFINITIONS OR HSE DEFINITIONS

ALARP As Low As Reasonably Practicable:  ALARP means to reduce the risk to a level that is as low as reasonably practicable and involves balancing reduction in risk against the time, trouble, difficulty, and cost of achieving it. The is risk level represents the point of objectively assessed at which the time, trouble, difficulty, and cost of further reduction measures become unreasonably disproportionate to the additional risk reduction obtained it’s used in risk assessment.

Amputation:  An amputation is the traumatic loss of a limb or other external part of the body. An Amputations include a part, such as a limb or an appendage that has been severed, cut off, amputated either completely or partially, fingertip amputations with or without bone loss, and medical amputations resulting from irreparable damage, amputations of body parts that have since been reattached. Amputations do not include avulsions, enucleations, scalping, severed ears, or broken or chipped teeth.

Anchorage: Anchorage means a secure point for attaching a lanyard, lifeline, or other components of a travel restraint system or fall-arrest system at work at height. Anchorages require specific load and impact capacities for their intended use as an anchor points.

Assessment: The assessment is a process of collecting and judging evidence of a person’s performance in the workplace against a standard to determine whether the person has demonstrated competence or trained. Also, observation of work activities, questioning, finished product, professional discussion, and a range of other methods. The assessment is based on performance in the workplace, wherever possible.

Asset Damage / Property damage:  Asset or property damage is a direct loss of damage to property of plant, equipment, tools, or materials resulting from an incident. The consequences of the incident may include both direct loss or damage or consequential business loss.

Asset:  Asset of the organization standards an asset is an engineered piece of equipment i.e. it excludes reservoirs, people, etc. of the organization. An asset can be categorized in various ways e.g. in order of increasing detail business unit, equipment type e.g. pipelines and structures.

Audit:  Audit is the Independent, systematic, and documented process of objectively obtaining and evaluating verifiable evidence to determine that is complete and consistent, Are cost-effective and efficient, Safeguards the organizations or company resources and promote their effective use, Provides, and protects the integrity of, required records and Information. Allow for compliance with policies, chosen standards, laws, and regulations.

Barrier: A barrier is a physical obstruction that is intended to prevent contact with any equipment or tools, e.g. Road barrier, energized electrical conductors, and circuit parts or to prevent unauthorized access to a work area on a construction site.

BAT Best Available Techniques:  The BAT is the most effective and advanced stage in the development of activities and their methods of operation which indicates the practical suitability of particular techniques for providing in principle the basis for emission Limit Values designed to prevent and where this is not practicable, generally to reduce emissions and the impact on the environment as a whole. The BAT techniques include both the technology used and how the installation is designed, built, maintained, and operated.

Biodiversity:  Biodiversity is the term biological diversity meaning variability among living organisms from all sources to the variety of life on earth at all its levels, from genes to ecosystems and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological of which they are part this includes diversity within species, between species, and of ecosystems. Considering biological diversity at three main levels genetic diversity, species diversity, and ecosystem diversity.

Biological Agents: Biological agent a microorganism, cell culture, or human end parasite, whether or not genetically modified, may cause infection, allergy, toxicity, or otherwise create a hazard to human health. These enter the body via inhalation, ingestion, or skin contact with biological agents.

BLEVE Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion:  BLEVE a boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion is typically the result of fire engulfing a pressure vessel containing volatile flammable liquid. When the vessel fails the remaining contents burn in an intense fireball of a vessel of oil tank.

Body Harness: Full body safety harness is a system of straps that may be secured around the personnel in a manner that will distribute the fall arrest forces over at least the thighs, pelvis, waist, chest, and shoulders with a means for attaching it to other components of a personal fall arrest system for the use of work at height.

Bow Tie: The bow Tie is the Tie diagram that provides a visual representation of all credible accident scenarios that could exist around a certain Hazard of the accident. A Bow-tie diagram links threats & consequences to an event that is controlled by various prevention & recovery measures barriers to the bow tie.

BRA Building Risk Assessment:  The building risk assessment measures the risk to people or workers in occupied buildings in a factory plant and identifies any improvements that are required to ensure that they are adequately safeguarded.

Brownfield: The brownfield is a project of expansion, extension, addition, or revamping of units, equipment, utilities, or services on an existing facility for the construction of the projects.

Buddy System:  Buddy system is a person or worker assigned to assist someone who is working in a hazardous activity such as night shifts, in hot weather, and in a hazardous area, person's duties include remaining alert to hazards, raising alarms, keeping rescue lines clear, crosschecking that the correct procedures are being followed, and similar activities. The buddy system is protected to the same degree as the person he is assisting to the person.

Bump Test:  Bump test is a short exposure of a gas detector or gas monitor to a test gas that demonstrates that the sensor and alarm are operational, without carrying out calibration of the gas detector.

CE Conformity European. CE is a certification mark that indicates conformity with health, safety, and environmental protection standards for products sold within the European Economic Area.

Chemical Agent:  The chemical agent is any material that has a known chemical composition, regardless of its source or origin. This may be a pure single element or a mixture of several elements or chemical species.

Chronic Health Effects:  Chronic health effects is a condition where the dose or concentration is delivered at some frequency e.g. daily or weekly and over a period leading to slow and progressive consequences that manifest themselves in years of chronic effect.

Collective Protection: Collective protection is a protect everyone working at height at all times when in places, such as guardrails or safety nets before specifying personal fall arrest equipment that is reliant on being attached.

Collision: The collision is the impact other than an impact associated with normal operating circumstances, between aircraft, or between an aircraft and another object.

Competence or competency: Competence is the ability to perform a particular job in compliance with industry-accepted performance standards. The technical requirements and skills to perform the job as well as having knowledge and understanding to enable the job to be carried out successfully under different and changing conditions, and to handle emergencies that may occur during the construction of the projects.

Competent Person: A competent person is a person who has demonstrated the required set of skills and trained knowledge to successfully perform a task to the required standard under different and changing conditions in the workplace or project site.

Confined Space:  Confined space is an enclosed or partially enclosed space with restricted ingress and egress where there is the possibility that hazardous fumes, vapor, dust, or fluids may be present, or in which the proportion of oxygen in the air may be substantially reduced increased. Confined space e.g. trenches, pits, excavations, and any space more than 1.2 meters (4 feet) in depth with a depth-width ratio of less than 2.0 or the presence of a hazardous atmosphere shall be considered as confined space or confined space entry.

Consequence: The consequence is the adverse effects or harm which causes the quality of human health or the environment to be impaired. It is the loss that can be inflicted if any hazardous event occurs of consequence.

Contractor:  The contractor is defined as an individual or organization having a contract sub-contract with the organization for the provision of services, equipment, or performance of works of the contractor. The term contractor as used in the company or organization's contracts procedure is synonymous with the terms including but not limited.

Contractor Employee: A contractor employee is a person employed by a contractor or subcontractor who is directly involved in the execution work of prescribed work under an organization or company.

Corporate Risk Matrix: The corporate risk matrix is affecting people, assets, the environment, and the company or organization's reputation. The consequences may be immediate or delayed and may occur outside as well as inside the operating facility. There will also be a high potential for escalation.

Corrosive Gases: Corrosive gases are specific gas such as CO2 or H2S which has an internal corrosive effect on a specific pipeline transporting that gas. A corrosive gas will damage or destroy other substances with which it comes into contact using a chemical reaction.

Cryogenic Liquid:  Cryogenic liquid is a cryogenic liquid defined as a liquid with a normal boiling point below –150°C. The most commonly used industrial gases that are transported, handled, and stored in the liquid state at cryogenic temperatures are argon, helium, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen of cryogenic liquid.

Dust:  Dust is a solid particle slightly heavier than air.