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The last edit to this post was made by wang*nhua77020 on 2016-9-22 at 06:47. 1 Raw materials, spare items, and replacement parts: The risk management related to the safety of raw materials, spare items, and replacement parts involves assessing the quality of these items in order to control the risks posed by those that are not up to standard. In particular, risk assessments must be conducted for the use of new materials and new equipment, and their blind use is prohibited. 2 Maintenance operations and process cleaning: The safety risk management for maintenance operations and process cleaning involves analyzing the surrounding environment of the work site as well as the hazardous factors present in the processes carried out there, identifying such hazardous factors, and assessing their level of danger. At the same time, it is necessary to analyze the environmental factors during the operation process, identify the changes in these environmental factors caused by the operation that give rise to new hazard factors, and formulate preventive and control measures based on the risk level of each such hazard factor. 3 Special Equipment: The safety risk management of special equipment involves managing the installation, use, maintenance, repair, testing, and inspection of such equipment. It also entails strengthening the control over the quality of spare parts and materials used in these devices. Regular or irregular analyses and evaluations of the hazardous factors associated with special equipment are carried out, evaluation records are kept, and control and preventive measures are implemented to avoid accidents involving these devices. 4 Maintenance of equipment and facilities: Although there are many reasons that can lead to accidents involving equipment and facilities, they can be summarized into five categories: First, defects exist in the design, manufacturing, or installation of the equipment and facilities ； The second issue is improper selection by the using unit ； Third, the operator failed to use it properly ； Fourth, abrasion, fatigue, aging, and corrosion occur during operation ； Fifth is repair defects. These harmful factors can all be controlled; the key is to establish relevant statistical data, conduct regular or irregular risk analyses based on these statistics and the patterns of failures, and formulate preventive measures. 5 Key Positions: Safety risk management for key positions involves analyzing the entire production system to identify those processes with a high likelihood of accidents and severe consequences. Focus is placed on carrying out risk management regarding the knowledge, skills, awareness of the personnel working in these processes, as well as the equipment and facilities used in them. Strengthen the evaluation and control of hazardous factors in production processes, and establish a comprehensive risk mitigation system. Systems for developing aspects such as personnel’s knowledge structure, operational skills, accident handling capabilities, and safety awareness, as well as risk management procedures for personnel changes and maintenance systems for equipment and facilities. 6 Changes occur: Many companies, when making changes to equipment, facilities, and production processes, only consider whether such changes will facilitate production operations and increase output, ignoring the analysis of potential safety hazards; this often leads to safety accidents. The same is true for changes in personnel assigned to positions; often, staffing adjustments are made based on intuition or interpersonal relationships, with little consideration given to potential risk factors that might arise as a result of such changes. This makes it easy for operational accidents to occur due to human error. Changing safety risk management involves strengthening the analysis of hazardous factors when there are changes in equipment, facilities, processes, and personnel, in order to prevent safety accidents resulting from such changes. 7 Operation control: Safety risk management involves analyzing hazardous factors based on the process flow, properties of materials, as well as the conditions of equipment and facilities, in order to establish operating procedures and safety protocols. Evaluate the operators’ knowledge structure, operational skills, accident handling capabilities, safety knowledge, awareness, and habits, and establish evaluation and analysis records for them. Provide training and education based on their individual and common shortcomings in order to improve their overall competence and prevent operational accidents. 8 Safety knowledge, awareness, and habits: Unsafe behaviors on the part of people stem from a lack of safety knowledge, safety awareness, and poor safety habits. If operators lack the necessary safety knowledge, they are unable to properly assess whether their operations are safe; if they lack the appropriate safety awareness and turn a blind eye to unsafe behaviors, mistakes will occur unnoticed; if operators develop certain unsafe habits over time during production, accidents can happen as a result of these bad habits. Safety knowledge, awareness, and *habit risk management refer to how to enhance the safety knowledge of operators as well as the training related to their safety knowledge framework, improve their safety awareness, and create a positive safety culture. 9 Major Hazard Sources: The safety risk management of major hazard sources begins with the identification of such sources and the assessment of their level of hazard. Subsequently, the hazardous factors are analyzed to identify those with a higher potential for causing harm, and advanced technical equipment and facilities are utilized to implement appropriate preventive measures. Establish a management system for major hazard sources, develop emergency response plans, and set up evaluation records for major hazard sources. Strengthen the routine inspection of major hazard sources, conduct regular or irregular analyses and evaluations of the hazard factors associated with these sources, and develop new preventive and control measures based on any new hazard factors or increased risks, in order to prevent accidents related to major hazard sources. 10. Disconnect safety emergency and alarm equipment. Safety emergency and alarm equipment includes fire alarm systems, industrial television systems, call systems, emergency alert systems, fire-fighting facilities, emergency eye wash and shower stations, automatic interlock devices, ESD emergency shutdown systems, etc. Automatic interlock devices increase the safety factor of operations, but they also raise the difficulty of operating; precise control of various parameters is required, as well as a high level of responsibility from the operators. If any parameter is not controlled properly and there are slight fluctuations, it can lead to shutdowns. To avoid this and improve the operational rate, some companies blindly disable the interlocks and rely on the experience and skills of the operators for control, which can easily result in safety accidents.