Bridging Hazard Recognition Knowledge and Competency for Process and Occupational Safety

摘要

Hazard recognition is essential for the success of both process safety and occupational safety and health. All incidents involve release of energy, contact with energy, or interactions among different forms of energy. Energy identification makes it possible for potentially harmful energy in a process or job to be understood and evaluated. All harmful energy must be appropriately managed in order to ensure that the process or job can be performed safely. Energy identification coupled with management of potentially harmful energy is the most effective and efficient means of recognizing hazards and preventing incidents. Workers in highly hazardous chemical processing facilities are faced with the dual risks of process and occupational safety and health concerns. The risks in process safety and occupational safety and health both stem from the potential for uncontrolled releases and/or unwanted contacts with energy. To advance incident prevention it is necessary to go beyond providing more information and training. Developing workers knowledge and competency with a simple, logical, and universally applicable energy-based hazard recognition thought process is a safety imperative - for both process and occupational safety and health.