Re: [PSES] List of Common Misuses

[Michael Viau]

Personally, I’d accept an answer to this request in the form of how the equipment is designed to prevent an operator from misusing it.  Like how plugs (US) are designed with a long lead and a short lead to prevent you from hooking them up “backwards”. Most connectors are built that way too now.  If software flags a warning when you press the wrong button is another example.  And if you have an equipment qualification program, i’d want to know that, without all the details exactly.  The list of all the ways one can misuse equipment is 1000 times longer than the list of the ways they should be using it for a given application. But there are definitely steps you can skip in a detailed procedure where you can blow a fuse or hurt someone, so I’d want it to know where those steps are so that additional warning labels can be slapped on them.  As someone who asks these types of questions a lot… all I’m ever looking for is to verify that the right people actually took the time to think it through. No one could possibly expect an exhaustive list.  Sent from my iPhone On Oct 6, 2022, at 3:35 AM, John Woodgate <j...@woodjohn.uk> wrote:  Hi, Gert. I think the third term should be 'unavoidability', because if avoidability were perfect, i.e.  = 1 or 100 %, the risk would be zero. ====================================================================================== Best wishes John Woodgate OOO-Own Opinions Only www.woodjohn.uk Rayleigh, Essex UK It all depends On 2022-10-06 06:58, Gert Gremmen wrote: A risk analysis (risk = chance*severeness*avoid-ability) - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald <dhe...@gmail.com> To unsubscribe from the EMC-PSTC list, click the following link: https://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=EMC-PSTC&A=1 - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald <dhe...@gmail.com> To unsubscribe from the EMC-PSTC list, click the following link: https://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=EMC-PSTC&A=1