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adjective
- 1. sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention; noteworthy: "a significant increase in sales" Similar Opposite
- 2. having a particular meaning; indicative of something: "in times of stress her dreams seemed to her especially significant"
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Major Change means any of the following: (1) introduction of a new process, new process equipment, or new regulated substance; (2) any change in safe operating limits; or (3) any alteration in a process, process equipment, or process chemistry that introduces a new hazard or worsens an existing hazard. Login.
One way of viewing significant risk would be something which would have more impact than the control measures necessary to prevent it; so the risk arising from a wet floor (stf, lost-time injury, legal fees, management time all divided by likelihood) would cost more than the act of drying the floor, in this view a wet floor is a significant risk.
Release management focuses on both the engineering disciplines that must bring a specific project release together along with the management of external dependencies across products that must accompany a release. A key release management topic is to define the term “release”. For the sake of this article, a release is referred to as the ...
Structural edge barriers can of course be right at the edge, and usually are. The rule-of-thumb for WAH near unprotected edges is that PFPE is required if approaching closer than *about* 2m, i.e. a little more than the distance you could fall if you tripped over something. The distance isn't defined in law, only via the concept of "being able ...
Jan 20, 2012 · team is face-to-face conversation.”. To sum up the differences: Traditional requirements focus on system operations with a tendency toward detailed system specification; use cases focus on interactions between the user and the system with a similar tendency of detailed specification; and user stories focus on customer value with a built-in ...
The regulations define a "user" as "an employee who habitually uses display screen equipment as a significant part of his normal work" The guidance then goes on to describe Definite users as people like: Typists; Data Input operators (e.g call centres); News Editors; Air Traffic Controllers; Graphic Designers; Financial Dealer
In which case, as you rightly state, the risk assessment would need to be reviewed accordingly. Therefore the insignificant risk would no longer be insignificant, as regardless of how insignificant it may be, if an accident occurred in the future the risk would become resonably forseeable and significant.
There used to be a definition of SSoW in the St John Holt course reader for the NEBOSH Cert. SSoW: The word "system" is the key. SSoW is the entirety of method, competency, correct equipment, measurement and monitoring etc. that ensures consistent safe working. By comparison, a Method Statement is only piece of paper. Certainly not the same thing.
The POWRA is completed, sometimes daily, when conditions or circumstances change that may negate some of the controls identified in the original risk assessment. It's a way of communicating any changes that may have taken place and feeding back to the originator and fits into the monitoring and review process.
HSE define a near miss as a typr of incident: incident: near miss: an event not causing harm, but has the potential to cause injury or ill health (in this guidance, the term near miss will include dangerous occurrences) undesired circumstance: a set of conditions or circumstances that have the potential to cause injury or ill health, eg ...
