ENIE 441

Industrial Safety Engineering

Class-11
 Quiz-6
Peter Callaghan

Peter Callaghan is an emergency vehicle controller in his forties. In 2004 he was diagnosed with work related stress and
spent over a year on sick leave.
Quiz-6
Categorize and Identify the Safety Hazards
Hazard Category
Automation Ergonomic Heat, cold and temperature Pressure
Human and psychosocial
Biological Explosion Radiation
factors (e.g., stress)
Chemical Fall-related Lifting-related Sound, noise and vibration
Toxic, carcinogenic and
Electrical Fire Mechanical otherwise harmful
substances

Comment on the Organization’s Leadership Culture and Response to Safety.

Substantiate your comments with an example from the case study.
Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)

● FTA is a method to decompose a failure and look for situation

that might lead to the failure.

● Displayed the logical path from Effect to Cause.

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FTA - Process

● Begin Fault Analysis by identifying

possible failures in System, Process
and/or Human i.e. Machine, Material,
Measurements, Methods, Man,
Environment
● Structure of FTA
○ A graph whose Nodes are Failures
○ And, Edges are the logical relationship among
nodes AND,OR

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Car hits
an object

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FTA - Fire Accident Example

● A fire would take place if three elements were available, including:

○ Fuel

○ Ignition

○ Oxygen

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FTA - Fire Accident Example

● A fire would take place if three elements were available, including:

○ Fuel
• Solid
• Liquid
• Gases

○ Ignition
• Sparks
• Flames

○ Oxygen
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Class Exercise

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Class Exercise - FTA

● Develop a Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) for the fire accident.

○ Use the information provided earlier in today’s lecture regarding the fire components.

○ Send me your FTA within 10 min. from now.

○ Bonus point for the correct answer!

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Answer

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Risk Assessment - Video

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Risk Assessment

● Once hazards are identified, they should be ranked.

● Rankings should be based on
○ Hazard Consequence or Severity (Rating: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 with 5 as the Most Severe)

■ Fatality is a 5

○ Hazard Probability or Likelihood (Rating: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 with 5 as the Most Probable)

■ Will Absolutely Happen is a 5

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Hazard Severity Rating

● Catastrophic - 5
○ May cause permanent disability or loss of life

● Critical - 4
○ May cause severe injury or illness with lost time

● Marginal - 3
○ May cause minor injury/illness

● Negligible - 2
○ Violates program/standard, but probably would not result in an injury/illness

● Non-Existent - 1
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Hazard Probability Rating

● High - 5
○ Likely to occur immediately or within a short period of time and unlikely to be detected & corrected

● Medium - 4
○ Has a high probability of occurring over the lifetime and likely to be detected and corrected

● Low - 3
○ Possibly will occur, but has a very high potential
for detection and correction

● Very Low - 2
○ Extremely unlikely to occur

● Eliminated - 1 15
Risk Matrix

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Risk Matrix: Example 1_Medium Risk (Slip/Trip)

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Risk Matrix: Example 2_Extreme Risk (Falling from
a significant height )

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 Quiz-7
Pat Liddy

Pat Liddy is a psychiatric nurse in his forties. Last year while administering medication, a patient assaulted him. He took
one week off as sick leave and returned to work fully recovered.