Hi Stig,
One of my side jobs is in the Army National Guard Field Artillery. We
perform a risk assessment at each firing point we pull into using an Army
manual, FM 100-14 (Risk Management). I was surprised to see how closely
their documentation parallels EN 1050 in many aspects.
Here's a quick look at some of the terms and definitions used that relate to
your inquiry:
Hazard Severity:
* Severity - The expected consequences of an event in terms of degree
of injury, property damage or mission-impairing factors.
* Catastrophic - Death or permanent total disability, system loss,
major damage, significant property damage or mission failure.
* Critical - Permanent partial disability, temporary total disability
in excess of three months, major system damage, significant property damage
or significant mission degradation.
* Marginal - Minor injury, lost workday incident, minor system
damage, minor property damage, or some mission degradation.
* Negligible - First aid or minor medical treatment, minor system
impairment, little or no impact on mission.
Hazard Probability:
* Probability - The likelihood an event will occur.
* Frequent - Occurs often or continuously experienced.
* Likely - Occurs several times.
* Occasional - Occurs sporadically.
* Seldom - Unlikely, but could occur at some time.
* Unlikely - Can assume it will not occur
Hope this is helpful.
Sincerely,
Robert Loop
Engineering Supervisor
Wyle Laboratories
Product Safety
ph - (256) 837-4411 x313
fax- (256) 721-0144
e-mail: rl...@hnt.wylelabs.com
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> From: Stig Jorgensen[SMTP:jorgen...@skyskan.com]
> Reply To: Stig Jorgensen
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 2:24 PM
> To: emc-p...@ieee.org
> Subject: Risk assessment
>
>
> Hi Group, Dec 07,2000
> I am in the process of establishing the potential for an injury from a
> hazard.
> I can get a reasonable 'expression' to describe the potential for a hazard
> to turn into an accident (event). I am looking for the words that
> classifies the degree of an injury. Can some one direct me to some
> standard
> definitions?
> Do we base it on the length of work stoppage? i.e. a minor burn on a
> finger
> tip smarts for an hour or two. A good shock working with vacuum tubes,
> 300V,
> slowed you down for the rest of the day and so on.
>
> Has some one worked out a practical scale for the degree of an injury. It
> can be numbers or words as long as they are defined. If it does not exist
> let us generate one that we all agree on.-- or most of us.
>
> When it comes to property damage I think that a monetary replacement cost
> would be expressed in 'small', 'medium', 'large' etc where each is defined
> in 'very' general monetary terms.
>
> Thank you for your assistance.
> Sincerely
> Stig W. Jorgensen <jorgen...@skyskan.com>
>
>
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