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Assessing Feasibility

FDR Safety

The answers can be determined but only after documented due diligence using Task Based Risk Assessment (past blogs) and assessing feasibility of hazard controls. coupled with lower order controls (Awareness, Training and Procedures and PPE) is typically used to achieve acceptable risk.

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What to Do When LOTO is Not Feasible

FDR Safety

I’m finding clients who have excellent lockout/tagout programs but who have not taken the necessary step of identifying tasks where LOTO is not feasible. It matters not that your procedure meets the test for acceptable risk and that power is essential. Your only recourse is to prove LOTO is not feasible.

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How to Achieve Acceptable Risk with TaBRA

FDR Safety

In past years I’ve written about the value of the ANSI B11 standards and risk assessment. Key to learning how risk assessment and feasible risk reduction work together is to undergo experiential learning. Key to learning how risk assessment and feasible risk reduction work together is to undergo experiential learning.

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Defining acceptable risk in LOTO or machine guarding

FDR Safety

Safety professionals concerned with safety, efficiency and compliance should have the concepts of “acceptable risk” and “feasibility” in the forefront of their thinking. In every case, the “acceptable risk” and “feasibility” of lockout/tagout or machine guarding was the central issue. ANSI B11.0

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PTD Before Risk Assessment: A Historical Perspective

FDR Safety

This article will show that before risk assessment innovative initiatives that might currently be considered PTD efforts resulted from collaboration of safety and engineering personnel primarily relying on assessments of feasibility. The post PTD Before Risk Assessment: A Historical Perspective appeared first on FDRsafety.

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Calif. Utility Giant Will Bury 10,000 Miles of High Fire-Risk Power Lines

ENR Construction

PG&E multi-year commitment to mitigation comes as it admits role in Dixie Fire start; effort could cost post-bankruptcy public firm $15-$20B and one research analyst notes high feasibility and permitting risks.

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ANSI B11 and risk assessment: The best kept secret in safety

FDR Safety

At the recent ASSE Professional Development Conference, there was considerable focus on risk assessment, voluntary standards and prevention through design. The primary reason to become familiar with ANSI B11 is that it guides risk assessment. Risk assessment is one of the most powerful safety tools we have.

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