This will help you accurately determine if the proposed safeguarding is adequate and appropriate to the situation. This is the most fundamental and basic approach to risk management required in the European Machinery Directive and the CE process. It is structured yet flexible, and can be modified to fit your individual needs within your own safety management programs. The technique of risk assessment formalizes the often intuitive process by which designers and safety engineers use their experience to identify hazards, assess risks, and select the appropriate safeguarding. When assessing the risks keep in mind the severity of foreseeable injuries and the probabilities of their occurrence.
Accidents are unplanned events and a careful and complete exposure evaluation is important.
An example For example, the safest way to travel is to fly. Accident statistics clearly show it is the safest way to go from one point to another. Apply the risk assessment approach to this process and see how it might work. Note all of these questions are open-ended and require a significant amount of thought to arrive at an answer. This thought matrix can be customized to suit your safety management process and organization.