Questions regarding corporate risk assessment.
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1. What is the difference between risk assessment and safety assessment? What specific types can it be divided into? 2. Is there a clear stipulation on how often risk assessments should be conducted under normal circumstances? I would like to thank everyone here first!
1. The concepts of safety assessment and risk assessment are the same. Safety evaluation categories generally include preliminary safety evaluation, safety acceptance evaluation, current safety status evaluation, and special safety evaluation. Strictly speaking, construction projects must undergo the “three simultaneities” principle, namely preliminary safety evaluation and safety acceptance evaluation. Hazardous chemical enterprises should conduct a safety assessment once every two years, while enterprises dealing with highly toxic substances should carry out such assessments annually. It is clearly stipulated in the Regulations on the Safety Management of Hazardous Chemicals. For mining enterprises undergoing certificate renewal, an evaluation of the current safety status is also required
1. What is the difference between risk assessment and safety assessment? What specific types can it be divided into? Risk assessment is the basis of safety assessment, which generally refers to the evaluation of hazardous chemicals and highly toxic substances. Risk assessment generally includes 1) Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) ； 2) Safety Checklists Analysis (SCL) ； 3) Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA) ； 4) Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOP) ； 5) Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) ； 6) Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) ； 7) Event Tree Analysis (ETA) ； 8) Methods such as Job Hazard Analysis (LEC). 2. Is there a clear stipulation on how often risk assessments should be conducted under normal circumstances? There is no fixed frequency for risk assessment; regular evaluation is sufficient, but a risk assessment must be conducted promptly after any changes. Requirements of \"Safety Standardization for Entities Engaged in Hazardous Chemicals Operations\".
Risk assessment is the same as safety assessment; abroad it is referred to as risk assessment, while in China it is called safety assessment! Our **evaluations mainly include pre-safety evaluation, safety acceptance evaluation, and current safety status evaluation.** Currently, the pre-evaluation for the hazardous chemicals industry is referred to as a safety establishment evaluation; correspondingly, there is also a demonstration of safety conditions. Regarding the evaluation of current safety conditions, which is mainly applicable to industries involved in the production, use, and storage of hazardous chemicals, such evaluations are conducted once every two years for ordinary hazardous chemicals, and once a year for highly toxic hazardous chemicals. It is specified in laws and regulations such as the Work Safety Law and the Measures for the Administration of Hazardous Chemicals!
In our country, risk assessment and safety assessment are currently similar to each other; safety assessment can also be referred to as risk assessment. It originated with missile systems in the United States. Nowadays, safety assessment can be divided into three categories: preliminary safety assessment, safety acceptance assessment, and assessment of the current safety status. Among these, the preliminary assessment for hazardous chemicals is also known as assessment for the establishment of a construction project. Under the current regulations on the safety management of hazardous chemicals, highly toxic hazardous chemicals are to be evaluated once a year, while ordinary hazardous chemicals are to be evaluated once every two years. However, the draft new regulations on the safety management of hazardous chemicals propose that ordinary hazardous chemicals be evaluated once every three years, which is in line with the validity period of the business licenses held by enterprises.
Risk assessment is essentially the same as safety assessment; there should be no difference between them. Currently, safety assessment encompasses preliminary safety assessment, post-construction safety acceptance assessment, and current safety status assessment (in the past, there was also special-purpose assessment). The evaluation cycle is clearly stipulated in laws and regulations such as the Work Safety Law and the Regulations on the Management of Hazardous Chemicals.
At present, the main requirements for safety assessment of chemical enterprises are the Work Safety Law, the Regulations on the Safety Management of Hazardous Chemicals, and Order No. 8 issued by the State Administration of Work Safety (concerning safety assessment). Such requirements apply to many industries, including coal mines and non-coal mines, fireworks and firecrackers, civil explosive materials, ports, thermal power plants, hydroelectric power plants, and more
The safety assessment we carry out at present is referred to as risk assessment in many textbooks, but in fact it is still quite far from the risk assessment practices used abroad. In my opinion, China’s safety assessment work currently remains at the level of compliance checks; it has not yet truly progressed to the stage of concrete qualitative and quantitative risk analysis ； Moreover, foreign risk assessment is the result of market-oriented operations; it originated in the insurance industry. We still have some way to go to reach that level