process hazard analysis
1Process Hazard Analysis — (PHA) (or, Process Hazard Evaluation) is a set of organized and systematic assessments of the potential hazards associated with an industrial process. A PHA provides information intended to assist managers and employees in making decisions for… …
2Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points — (HACCP) is a systematic preventive approach to food safety and pharmaceutical safety that addresses physical, chemical, and biological hazards as a means of prevention rather than finished product inspection. HACCP is used in the food industry to …
3Hazard analysis — A hazard analysis is a process used to assess risk. The results of a hazard analysis is the identification of unacceptable risks and the selection of means of controlling or eliminating them. The term is used in several engineering specialties,… …
4Hazard and operability study — Hazard and operability studies are a methodology for identifying and dealing with potential problems in industrial processes, particularly those which would create a hazardous situation or a severe impairment of the process. It is commonly known… …
5Process Safety Management — is a regulation, promulgated by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), intended to prevent an incident like the 1984 Bhopal Disaster. A process is any activity or combination of activities including any use, storage,… …
6Job Safety Analysis — is one of the safety management tools that can be used to define and control the hazards associated with a a certain process, job or procedure. Job Safety Analysis is a term used interchangeably with Job Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment. The… …
7Intelligence analysis — This article deals with the intellectual process of analysis itself, as opposed to intelligence analysis management, which, in turn, is a subcomponent of intelligence cycle management. For a complete hierarchical list of articles in this series,… …
8Failure mode and effects analysis — A failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is a procedure for analysis of potential failure modes within a system for classification by severity or determination of the effect of failures on the system. It is widely used in manufacturing… …
9Survival analysis — is a branch of statistics which deals with death in biological organisms and failure in mechanical systems. This topic is called reliability theory or reliability analysis in engineering, and duration analysis or duration modeling in economics or …
10Root cause analysis — (RCA) is a class of problem solving methods aimed at identifying the root causes of problems or events. Root Cause Analysis is any structured approach to identifying the factors that resulted in the nature, the magnitude, the location, and the… …
