Overview
Having the crew of 60 Minutes show up at your plant, having your CEO called to testify before Congress, being vilified in the press after a man-made disaster – these are certain to cause a bad day. Hazard evaluation is the first step in avoiding that bad day.
Hazard evaluation is a multi-step process designed to find the hazards in a particular product, process or piece of equipment, and then to evaluate those hazards for injury or property damage potential. It also includes enumerating the failure modes that can cause hazards to be realized.
This 3 hour course is an introduction to hazard evaluation. It will discuss the steps of hazard evaluation and various methods for performing it. The course material will assist in identifying commonly (and not so commonly) encountered hazards. It will provide a systematic framework for the small scale hazard evaluation process. Specific use of both the checklist method and the what-if method will be made. Numerous case studies will be explored where proper hazard evaluation and corrective response would have prevented a disaster.
To receive PDH credit for this course, the student must pass a multiple-choice quiz consisting of fifteen (15) questions.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Purpose of a hazard evaluation
- Deliverables from a hazard evaluation
- Six steps of hazard evaluation
- Setting boundaries
- Identifying hazards
- Identifying and describing failure modes
- Identifying who or what could be injured or damaged
- Determining potential injuries and property damage
- Checklist method
- What-if method
- Combined checklist/what-if method
Course
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Introduction to Hazard Evaluation
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