Hazard Logs and Hazard Tracking Systems

In this blog post and video ‘Hazard Logs and Hazard Tracking Systems’, I’m going to tell you about their benefits and features.

In many industries, we are required to create a hazard log: perhaps by a regulator, a customer, or a prime contractor. Or maybe it’s “just the way we do it round here”. Whatever the reason, many junior staff will be given responsibility for entering data into a hazard log.

Hazard Logs enable us to manage large amounts of safety data and references, but only if they are implemented properly. Unfortunately, it seems that there are an infinite number of ways of not doing them well. In my 25+ years in System Safety, I’ve seen many bad hazard logs, so I created this lesson to help you get the basics right.

Topics | Transcript | Questions

Topics

I’m going to be covering these topics, which are the most commonly asked questions:

• What is a hazard log? (What is it what do we do with it?)
• The key elements of a hazard log (what needs to be in it to make it work)?
• Hazard Log management (what we need to do)?
• What about hazard log tools? (What can we use to create a hazard log)?
• What’s the difference between a hazard log and a risk assessment?
• What’s the difference between a hazard log and a risk register?

Transcript

Hi everyone, and welcome to the Safety Artisan.

I’m Simon and today we’re going to be talking about Hazard logs and hazard tracking systems.

As I said, we’re going to look at hazard logs and hazard tracking systems and we’re going to be answering the most popular questions.

The most often asked questions about Hazard logs and Hazard Tracking Systems that you will find on the internet. So that’s what we’re going to answer.

And this is going to be the first of three sessions on this subject.

Side: Topics

Topics for this session. Right now commonly asked questions are:

• What is a hazard log? What is it what do we do with it?
• The key elements of a hazard log: What needs to be in it to make it work?
• Hazard Log of management: What do we need to do?
• What about hazard log tools? What can we use to create a hazard log?

Effectively now we’ll be looking at that in much more detail in sessions two and three. But we’ll just go over the basics today and then also, some very common questions:

• What’s the difference between a hazard log versus a risk assessment? and
• What’s the difference between a hazard log and a risk register?

And when I say Hazard Log, you can substitute [the phrase] hazard tracking system at all times. They’re really one and the same thing, which we will talk about.

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Related Articles

See also this info-post on Hazard Logs and there is another post to come on how a relational database can deliver a ‘Full Function’ Hazard Log.

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