Safety definitions | HSE definitions G to K

                                        SAFETY DEFINITIONS | G – K

                                 SAFETY DEFINITIONS OR HSE DEFINITIONS 

Safety definitions

SAFETY DEFINITIONS | G – K

SAFETY DEFINITIONS OR HSE DEFINITIONS

Gases: Gases is a substance or matter in a state in which they will expand freely to fill the whole of a container, having no fixed shape unlike a solid and no fixed volume, unlike a liquid of gases.

Guardrail System: A guardrail system is a vertical barrier, consisting of, but not limited to, top rails, mid-rails, and posts, erected to prevent employees from falling off a scaffold platform or walkway to lower levels guardrail system.

HAC Hazardous Area Classification: Hazardous area classifications is a method of analyzing and classifying the areas of a facility into hazardous areas and non, hazardous areas and the subdivision of the classified hazardous areas into zones as Zone 0, Zone 1, and Zone 2 if the explosive atmosphere is likely because of gas vapor.

Hazard: Hazard is the potential to cause harm, including ill health and injury, damage to property, products, or the environment, production losses, or increased liabilities of hazards.

Hazardous Area: Hazardous area is any place in which an explosive atmosphere may occur in quantities such as requiring special precautions to protect the safety of workers in the hazardous area.

Hazardous Waste: Hazardous wastes may be defined as hazardous based on waste characteristics e.g. Flammable, Ignitable, Toxic, Mutagenic, Reactive, Corrosive, etc. or waste may be defined as hazardous based on Listing i.e. are any components of the waste stream listed as hazardous; in US EPA, or other valid classification systems of hazardous waste.

HAZOP Hazard and Operability: HAZOP is a study that identifies deviations from process boundaries and records its consequences, safeguards, and recommendations. HAZOP is a key method of identifying and qualitatively assessing the process of risks.

Health Hazard: A health hazard is the potential to cause harm to health. Health hazards may be biological, chemical, physical, ergonomic, or psychological. Health hazards are also known as agents hazardous to health and hazardous agents of health hazards.

Health Risk: Health risk is the combination of the likelihood that harm to health may occur which is related to exposure multiplied by the severity of health effects hazard.

Heat Cramps: Heat cramps is the painful intermittent spasms of the muscles following hard physical work in a hot environment leading to a large loss of salt and water from the body.

Heat Exhaustion: Heat exhaustion is the condition whose symptoms may include, profuse sweating, weakness, rapid pulse, dizziness, nausea, and headache due to heat exhaustion.

Heat Stroke: Heat stroke is a serious condition where the body is no longer able to cool itself and a person’s body temperature becomes dangerously high due to heat stroke.

HIPO High Potential (HIPO): High potential is the events are the incidents with a potential severity of 4 as per the Risk Matrix of high potential.

Horizontal Lifeline: Horizontal lifeline is the flexible line between two fixed anchorages independent of the work surface to which a lanyard is secured using a safe sliding connection or tying off with a horizontal lifeline.

Hot Work:  Hot Work is the work activity that will produce a source of ignition sparks, heat, or a naked flame, or any work on live electrical equipment or the use of non-intrinsically safe equipment which will potentially produce a source of ignition in the hot work.

HSE Critical Activities: HSE critical activities that have been identified by the hazards and effects management process as vital to ensure asset integrity, prevent incidents, and mitigate adversely.

HSE effects Task Analysis:  HSE effects task analysis is the method used to collect, record, and analyze information about tasks to help understand what is required and needed to improve human performance of task analysis.

HSE Flash:  HSE Flash is the immediate and timely communication of the initial findings, immediate actions initial measures taken at the location, and recommendations from significant HSE occurrences of HSE flash.

HSE Lesson Learned: HSE Lessons Learned is the communication of significant learning from the Investigation of HSE Occurrences Incidents, HIPO, etc.

HSE Observation: HSE observations are the tool to observe and document hazards and violations related to unsafe conditions, and unsafe acts within the work environment in the work site. HSE Observations data analysis helps in identifying areas for improving the performance of the safe system of work.

HSEIA Health, Safety, and Environmental Impact Assessment: HSEIA is the systematic process of identifying HSE impacts of existing, new, or substantially altered projects, and establishing prevention and mitigation requirements in the work site.

Human Resource: Human resources is responsible for the development of health and well-being initiatives for the benefit of the employee, Leading in the conduct of health promotion, stress management, and recreational programs for organizations' employees, and providing continuing support to managers and individuals in a changing environment and encourage referral to occupational workplace counselors where appropriate in the organizations.

ICAF Implied cost to avert a fatality: Implied cost to avert a fatality is defined by the net cost of the risk-reducing measures divided by the statistical number of potential fatalities averted by the measures. It provides a useful indication of the effectiveness of safety in the workplace.

Incident: Incident is the undesirable event or chain of events that cause, or could have caused injury, illness, impact on the company or organization's reputation, production, damage, loss to the assets, and/or harm to the environment, or third parties.

Individual Risk (IR):  Individual risk is the combined fatal risks to a named individual. IR takes into account factors such as total risk. Individual risk is the sum of risk contributions from all hazards to which the individual is exposed occupancy. The proportion of time exposed to work hazards and Vulnerability i.e. probability that exposure to the hazard will result in fatality due to individual risk.

IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature:  International union for conservation of nature is the IUCN Red List of threatened species, founded in 1964, and is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species. It uses a set of criteria to evaluate the extinction risk of thousands of species and subspecies.

Job Performer: A job performer is the person or worker who works under the direction of the Performing Authority and accepts the worksite as safe to commence work. He communicates the hazards and permits controls and conditions to other work party members or a group of personnel. Job Performer, Ensures risk assessment concerning working at height activity has been performed, Carries out the activity with a valid and authorized Permit to Work (PTW) as per company Permit to Work Standard, wherever applicable, Ensures personnel performing the activity are adequately trained and competent, Conducts Tool Box Talks (TBT) briefing the workers on potential hazards and precautionary measures required for the activity at the workplace.

Job Safety Analysis:  Job safety analysis is a process of formal identification, recording, and assessment of the risks involved in any particular operation so that appropriate controls can be introduced.

KPI:  KPI means key performance indicator, which is a type of performance measurement that evaluates the success of a particular activity in the organization.