SPECIALISED RISK ASSESSMENT

JRL Solutions Ltd helps organisations meet their obligations under legislation such as the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1999 and 2005 and the Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 2002.

JRL Solutions Ltd carries out specialised risk assessments in situations where hazard identification and risk evalaution may be complex and the consequences of failure could lead to catastrophic outcomes both onsite and offsite in the community.

The purpose of a specialised risk assessment is to:-

• Identify significant hazards
• Identify persons at risk including specific persons at greater risk
• Evaluate risk in terms of likelihood and consequence, decide if risk is managed adequately and if not make recommendations to manage the risk better
• Record the significant findings
• Be reviewed at appropriate intervals

JRL Solutions Ltd collects evidence from observation, discussion, study of documentation and photographic record.

JRL Solutions Ltd takes into account the safety controls when carrying out a specialised risk assessment.

JRL Solutions Ltd can carry out Specialised Risk Assessments using a range of techniques including : -

• Hazard Operability Studies (HAZOPS)
• A Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) study is a structured and systematic examination of a planned or existing process or operation in order to identify and evaluate problems that may represent risks to personnel or equipment, or prevent efficient operation. The HAZOP technique was initially developed to analyse chemical process systems, but has later been extended to other types of systems and also to complex operations and to software systems. A HAZOP is a qualitative technique based on guide-words and is carried out by a multi-disciplinary team.
• Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
• Fault tree analysis (FTA) is a failure analysis in which an undesired state of a system is analysed using boolean logic to combine a series of lower-level events. This analysis method is mainly used in the field of safety engineering to quantitatively determine the probability of a safety hazard.
• Event Tree Analysis (ETA)
• A method of illustrating and analysing the relationships between a sequence of outcomes that may arise over time following an initiating event.
• Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• A failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), is a procedure in operations management 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 industries in various phases of the product life cycle and is now increasingly finding use in the service industry. Failure modes are any errors or defects in a process, design, or item, especially those that affect the customer, and can be potential or actual. Effects analysis refers to studying the consequences of those failures.