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INDUSTRIAL RISK ASSESSMENT
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Proponent’s Tasks
Look for qualified professionals.
Consider previous industrial experience.
Strength and ability to understand the process ,
product or equipment.
Ability to manage risks.
Show leadership commitment.
To be proactive to practical approach.
Have openness to the reality.
FACTORS IGNORED
Business leader ignores factual data.
Believes consultant data as ultimate.
Undermine residual risks and does not concede the
inherent weakness of the project.
Team works in line with the business leader suppress the vital facts for execution of the decision.
THE MOST FORGOTTEN THINGS
Evaluating risks and hazards which may affectthe nearby community in emergency situation.
Identifying required response tasks not coveredin existing plans.
To match these tasks to the resources available.
Making changes necessary to improve existing plans.
Establishing procedures for periodic testing, review and updating of the plans.
Educate the general community about the integrated plan.
REMEMBER
The quantity of input data is an important factor indetermining the uncertainty of results
Determinations of thresholds and limits regarding the acceptability of variations and variability is considered as valuable inputs
Socially relevant factors and personal responsibility needs to be considered.
BEST PRACTICES
Establish guidelines through consultative and collaborative approach.
Promote such guidelines through quality educative and training programmes.
Use credible data bank with a provision to update at the time of critical review and retrofitting.
Upgrade the best practices on a continual basis.
RISK ASSESSMENTS : WHEN AND HOW ?
To be conducted at project conceptualization, design, construction and startup phases
Safety and Risk Management should be integrated with the standards, procedures and practices.
The results should me monitored and stewarded with the aim for continuous improvement.
Timely and accurate implementation of the systems.
Tips for Recognizing Impending Crisis
Pay attention when your instincts tell you that there is something wrong.
Confront disturbing facts as and when you find them.
Do not ignore, rationalize them, or minimize there importance and investigate.
Consider the consequences if disturbing facts are found to be true (financial losses, physical injury, company reputation, etc).
Seek the counsel of others, particularly those close to the situation.
Let your values guide you. what is important ? the right thing to do.
CHALLENGES
An institution to turn out knowledge based / skill human resource to understand and reduce risk elimination and minimization.
To develop capacity building measures in risk reduction and managing.
To identify the strategic locations to establish the capacity building measures.
To develop proper / acceptable modules and tools of training.
To strengthen the existing enforcement machinery and motivation mechanism to change their attitude and perception.
To motivate various stake holders / policy makers to respond at quicker phase in implementing the policies / programmes.