Learn Operating & Support Hazard Analysis.
In this full-length session, The Safety Artisan looks at Operating & Support Hazard Analysis, or O&SHA, which is Task 206 in Mil-Std-882E. We explore Task 206’s aim, description, scope, and contracting requirements. We also provide value-adding commentary, which explains O&SHA: how to use it with other tasks; how to apply it effectively on different products; and some of the pitfalls to avoid. We refer to other lessons for specific tools and techniques, such as Human Factors analysis methods.
Introduction
Hello everyone and welcome to the Safety Artisan; home of safety engineering training. I’m Simon and today we’re going to be carrying on with our series on Military-Standard-882E system safety engineering.
Operating & Support Hazard Analysis
Today, we’re going to be moving on to the subject of operating and support hazard analysis. This is, as it says, task 206 under the standard. Operating and support hazard analysis, I’ll just call it O&S or OSHA (also O&SHA) for short. Unfortunately, that will confuse people if I call OSHA. Let’s call it O&S.
Topics for this Session
The purpose of O&S hazard analysis is to identify and assess hazards introduced by those activities and procedures and also to evaluate the adequacy of O&S procedures, processes, equipment, facilities, etc, to mitigate risks that have been already identified. A twofold task but a very big task. And as we’ll see, we’ve got lots of slides today on task description, and reporting, contracting, and commentary. As always, I present the full text as is of the task, which is copyright-free, but I’m only going to talk about the things that are important. So, we’re not going to go through every little clause of the standard that would be pointless.
O&S Hazard Analysis (T206)
Let’s get started with the purpose. As we’ve already said, it’s to identify and assess those hazards which are introduced by operational and support activities and procedures and evaluate their adequacy. So, we’re looking at operating the system, whatever it may be – and this is a military standard, so we assume a military system, but not all military systems are weapon systems by any means. Not all are physical systems.
So, there may be inventory management systems, management information systems, all kinds of stuff. So, operating those systems and just supporting them, maintaining them and resupplying them, disposing of them, etc, do those things create any hazards or introduce any hazards? And how do we mitigate them?
Answering those questions is the purpose of the task.
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