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More Resources for Risk Assessment Programs Course

Welcome to Module Five, More Resources for Risk Assessment. We’re on the home straight now! This is the last of the five modules. I will let you know where to get more resources and help on these topics.

Course Learning Objectives

  • Describe fundamental risk concepts;
  • Explain what a system safety approach is and does;
  • Define what a risk analysis program is; 
  • List the hazard analysis tasks that make up a program;
  • Select tasks to meet your needs;
  • Design a tailored risk analysis program for any application; and
  • Know how to get more information and resources.

More Resources for Risk Assessment: Transcript

Copyright/Source Statement

“First, I want to point out that I’ve been referring to a standard; Military Standard 882E, a copyright-free publication. It’s a US standard and is available to download for free at many different locations. One of them is the US Defence Acquisition University. As far as I can tell, this is the official home of it now. You can search for ‘DAU’ or ‘Defence Acquisition University’ [to find it]. And when you go there, this is a search function, which is very good. You’ll find 882E very easily. But here’s the link for reference now.

So that is copyright-free. This presentation, of course, is copyright The Safety Artisan of this year (2021). But it’s also worth saying that there’s a lot more out there. There’s more help you can get than the standard by itself. The Defence Acquisition University for some reason doesn’t seem to publish much on 882E, either in the way of guidance or help on how to use this standard.

For More…

If you want more information, please feel free to go to The Safety Artisan channel on YouTube; subscribe to the channel and click on the bell symbol to get informed whenever a new video comes out. There are lots of free videos on The Safety Artisan channel. And also short free demo versions of the paid videos. So, if you want to look at a video to see whether you think it’s worth buying, there will be a free version on there. Either a two-minute thing with subtitles or, for a lot of the lessons, there’s a full seven minutes. It’s the first seven minutes of the lesson. So you can get a flavor of what’s there.

And then for more videos and resources, you can visit this site, www.safetyartisan.com. That’s got all the information there. It’s a secure site. Here you can sign up for regular emails from The Safety Artisan. And that will get you a free Course Triple Bundle. Please feel free to help yourself and look at the free goodies!

Mil-Std-882E Analysis Tasks

But also, there are ‘paid lessons’ on each one of the 10 [Mil-Std-882E] Tasks. Lessons on average are about – most of the lessons are about forty-five minutes. Some are a little bit shorter at thirty-five minutes. And the Environmental one is an hour. As is, the Health Hazard Analysis one. That’s because those are very complex tasks. So they vary from about 35 to 60 minutes in length each.

What and Why?

And for each of those old video training sessions, you will get some in-depth training on each task. Your training video will include a full description of the task, plus a commentary that I provide. You will get a full written transcript of the video as well. And if you go there, the page will tell you the benefits of each task. What it’s designed to do and how to apply it. Its pros and cons. And my expert tips from long and sometimes bitter experience on how to get the most out of these tasks. Also, pitfalls to avoid.

In Conclusion – Learning Objectives

Let’s recap, for this entire course, the five modules. You should now be able to describe your fundamental research concepts from Module One. From Module Two, you should be able to explain what a system safety approach is and does. You should be able to define what a risk analysis program is. You should be able to list the Hazard Analysis Tasks that make up a Safety Program. Or a Risk Analysis Program.

Critically, you should be able to select which tasks you need to meet your needs. And by doing that repeatedly, you should then be able to design a tailored Risk Analysis Program. And you should be able to do this for pretty much any application. And in the final module, you will have learned how to get more information. And where to find more in-depth resources on each of those 10 tasks. That’s in case you should need to go to the next level.

So, that’s what we’ve covered in this session.

End

And it just remains for me to say thanks very much for buying this [course] video and supporting the work of The Safety Artisan. I’m Simon and I would like to say a personal thanks very much to you. Goodbye and hope to see you again soon.”

This is Module 5 of SSRAP

This is Module 5 from the System Safety Risk Assessment Program (SSRAP) Course. Risk Analysis Programs – Design a System Safety Program for any system in any application.

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Meet the Author

Learn safety engineering with me, an industry professional with 25 years of experience, I have:

•Worked on aircraft, ships, submarines, ATMS, trains, and software;

•Tiny programs to some of the biggest (Eurofighter, Future Submarine);

•In the UK and Australia, on US and European programs;

•Taught safety to hundreds of people in the classroom, and thousands online;

•Presented on safety topics at several international conferences.

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Mil-Std-882E Safety Analysis

Health Hazard Analysis

In this full-length (55-minute) session, The Safety Artisan looks at Health Hazard Analysis, or HHA, which is Task 207 in Mil-Std-882E. I explore the aim, description, and contracting requirements of this complex Task. It covers: physical, chemical & biological hazards; Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT); ergonomics, aka Human Factors; the Operational Environment; and non/ionizing radiation. I will outline how to implement Task 207 in compliance with Australian WHS. (See also other lessons for specific tools and techniques, such as Human Factors analysis methods.)

This is the seven-minute-long demo. The full version is a 55-minute-long whopper!
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Health Hazard Analysis: Topics

  • Task 207 Purpose;
  • Task Description;
  • ‘A Health Hazard is…’;
  • ‘HHA Shall provide Information…’;
  • HAZMAT;
  • Ergonomics;
  • Operating Environment;
  • Radiation; and
  • Commentary.

Health Hazard Analysis: Transcript

Introduction

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Safety Artisan. I’m Simon, your host, and today we are talking about health hazard analysis.

Task 207: Health Hazard Analysis

This is Task 207 in the Mil. standard, 882E approach, which is targeted for defense systems, but you will see it used elsewhere. The principles that we’re going to talk about today are widely applicable. So, you could use this standard for other things if you wish.

Topics for this Session

We’ve got a big session today so I’m going to plough straight on. We’re going to cover the purpose of the task; and the description; the task helpfully defines what a health hazard is; and says what health hazard analysis, or HHA, shall provide in terms of information. We talk about three specialist subjects – hazardous materials or hazmat, ergonomics, and operating environment. Also, radiation is covered, as another specialist area. Then we’ll have some commentary from myself.

Now the requirements of the standard of this task are so extensive that for the first time, I won’t be quoting all of them, word for word. I’ve actually had to chop out some material, but I’ll explain that when we come to it. We can work with that but it is quite a demanding task, as we’ll see.

Task Purpose

Let’s look at the task purpose. We are to perform and document a health hazard analysis to identify human health hazards and evaluate what it says, materials and processes using materials, etc, that might cause harm to people, and to propose measures to eliminate the hazards or reduce the associated risks. In many respects, it’s a standard 882-type approach. We’re going to do all the usual things. However, as we shall see it, we’re going to do quite a lot more on this one.

Task Description #1

So, task description. We need to evaluate the potential effects resulting from exposure to hazards, and this is something I will come back to again and again. It’s very easy dealing in this area, particularly with hazardous materials, to get hung up on every little tiny amount of potentially hazardous material that is in the system or in a particular environment and I’ve seen this done to death so many times. I’ve seen it overdone in the UK when COSHH, a control of substance hazardous to health, came in in the military. We went bonkers about this. We did risk assessments up the yin-yang for stuff that we just did not need to worry about. Stuff that was in every office up and down the land. So, we need to be sensible about doing this, and I’ll keep coming back to that.

So, we need to do as it says; identification assessment, characterization, control, and communicate assets in the workplace environment. We need to follow a systems approach, considering “What’s the total impact of all these potential stressors on the human operator or maintainer?” Again, I come from a maintenance background. The operator often gets lots of attention because a) because if the operator stuffs up, you very often end up with a very nasty accident where lots of people get hurt. So, that’s a legitimate focus for a human operator of a system.

But also, a lot of organizations, the executive management tend to be operators because that’s how the organization evolves. So, sometimes you can have an emphasis on operations and maintenance and support, and other things get ignored because they’re not sexy enough to the senior management. That’s a bad reason for not looking at stuff. We need to think about the big picture, not just the people who are in control…

…get the full transcript here.

End: Health Hazard Analysis

So, that is the end of the session. Thank you very much for listening. And all that remains for me to say is thanks very much for supporting the work of the Safety Artisan and tuning into this video. And I wish you every success in your work now and in the future. Goodbye.

Meet the Author

Learn safety engineering with me, an industry professional with 25 years of experience, I have:

•Worked on aircraft, ships, submarines, ATMS, trains, and software;

•Tiny programs to some of the biggest (Eurofighter, Future Submarine);

•In the UK and Australia, on US and European programs;

•Taught safety to hundreds of people in the classroom, and thousands online;

•Presented on safety topics at several international conferences.