Risk ✔✔The measure of the probability and severity of a negative event
Probability ✔✔How likely the event is to occur. This includes exposure, the more people
exposed the more likely the event.
Risk Management Process ✔✔1 Evaluate (Risk ID)
2 Prioritize (Risk Analysis)
4 Cost Benefit (Financing)
4 Implement (Risk Elimination or Reduction)
5 (Administration of Risk Management Process)
Review
Objective evidence which is documentation
Healthy Worker Effect ✔✔Workers tend to be healthier than the population as a whole.
Risk Cost ✔✔Probability x Cost
, Residual Risk ✔✔The Risk that remains after the preventative measure have been taken
Threshold Risk Model ✔✔ACGIH
There is some safe level to which everyone can be exposed without increasing the probability of
becoming sick.
No Threshold Risk Model ✔✔There is no safe level. Every exposure increase probability of
becoming sick (ionizing rad)
ALAR
ALARA ✔✔As Low As Reasonably Achievable
Purpose of Incident Investigation ✔✔To prevent re-occurance, retro active, to find facts - not to
place blame.
Notes: Good apple bad apple by Dekker.
OSHA incident rate