Hazard

A threat as a technical term means the possibility that an environmental factor (person, animal, thing or natural basis of life ) can come together with a source of danger spatially and / or temporally. The effect of the risk leads to damage, such as an injury, illness, death, loss of function or loss of function.

As defined in ISO / IEC Guide 51 hazard is a potential source of damage.

The identification of hazard is the protection and security.

Definitions

  • EN ISO 12100-1:2003-4: potential source of harm

EN ISO 12100-1/2 have been replaced by EN ISO 12100 ( 2011-03 )!

  • EN 61508-4 ( August 2002) or VDE 0803 Part 4 Functional safety of electrical / electronic / programmable electronic safety-related systems: 3.1.2 Hazard (s: hazard ): potential source of harm
  • 2.3 Threats - potential source of harm

The injury-causing factor that stands behind a hazard, is the physical process, from which the real danger. This is, for example, in the unsecured load the potential energy and the kinetic energy of the non-secure parts on the hot surface of the thermal energy, etc.

Occupational Safety and Health

In OSH hazard refers to any source of a work-related accident or work-related health impairment. What is meant here are the effects of harmful substances, energy and the burdens that affect the working environment to the detriment of workers.

Such hazards are due to various causes. Called The German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

  • Defects in the design of the workplace with respect to workplace
  • Workplace
  • Work equipment (machines, tools)
  • Agents (material)

Compliance, identification and reduction of risks is an essential task of organizing work. What hazards exist at a specific workplace, shall be recorded in a risk assessment.

List of hazards in occupational safety

Excerpt from the list of threats to the German professional associations / accident insurance:

The Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance has developed a system for uniform national risk assessment a reference catalog with hazard classes in 2005.

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