Concept | Definition | ||||
Core | Risk | Probability of occurrence of an event that could cause damage | |||
Conditioning | Event | Situation… | |||
| Risk situation | …that can occur with a certain probability and which, if it does occur, may cause damage | |||
| Hazardous occurrence | …occurred, resulting in damage | |||
| Probability | Relationship between the number of real occurrences of an event and the number of possible occurrences of that event | |||
Damage | Quantification, usually on a discrete scale, of physical and psychological injuries, material losses, environmental, social, economic or political consequences, of the eventual occurrence of an event | ||||
Cause | Antecedent in a convergent logical tree. Probability of occurrence of the event results from the set of causes, taking into account the logic gates and the levels of significance | ||||
| Hazard | Intrinsic characteristic of a product, a substance, a machine, an equipment, a task, a person, likely to be the cause of an injury or a malfunction | |||
| Working condition | How a hazard can become effective, including quantities, storage or use of products, facilities, processes, work environment (physical, chemical or psychological), among others | |||
Effect | Consequent of the event in a divergent logical tree. The set of logically related effects allows to assess the damage eventually resulting from the occurrence of the event | ||||
| Loss | Loss of work capacity, material loss, consequences for the environment or for the community | |||
| Vulnerability | Measure of the ability of a system to resist internal or external aggression | |||
Derived | Assessment | Methodology that allows to know, in the most profound way possible, the risks present in a production process | |||
| Identification | Detection of risks present in the production process in a systematic and descriptive way based on a model (operational, algorithmic or conceptual) representative of that process | |||
| Categorization | Awareness of risks, typifying and characterizing them, which implies the elaboration and interpretation of trees of potential causes and trees of possible effects | |||
| Valuation | Measuring risks with their hierarchy and scaling into defined risk levels according to reliable criteria | |||
Control | Elaboration, design and implementation of barriers leading to risk minimization | ||||
| Prevention | Action with the objective of minimizing the probability of occurrence of a risk situation | |||
| Protection | Action with the objective of minimizing the damage that may result from the occurrence of a risk situation | |||
| Mitigation | Action with the objective of reducing the damage effectively caused by the occurrence of the event | |||
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| Barrier | Device, procedure or action resulting in the minimization of the probability (prevention barrier) or of the expected damage (protection barrier) | ||
Assumption of the… | Financing or transferring liability for compensation for damages resulting from a… | ||||
| …residual risk | …uncontrollable or uncontrolled risk that implies a non-zero probability of a hazardous occurrence | |||
Monitoring | Recurring step of the risk management process, which, analysing the results of the control step, identifies, on the one hand, inefficiencies in barriers and, on the other hand, dynamic changes in the production process | ||||
Engaging | Risk management | Sequential and recurring process, whose main objective is to minimize the known risk, always considering the existence of residual risks and the dynamic characteristic of the risk concept | |||
Safety | The inverse of the Risk: S = 1/R | ||||
Integrated safety | Global, systemic, and dynamic treatment of risk management, taking into account all types of risk and all methodologies capable of controlling them | ||||
| Multidisciplinarity | Approach according to different technical-scientific areas with specific yet complementary results | |||
| Pluridisciplinarity | Use of specific knowledge and methodologies of a given science with a common objective | |||
| Interdisciplinarity | Enhancement of synergies between the different approaches | |||