HAZARD, HAZID, HAZAN AND HAZOP - Part of Safety and Risk Management: HAZARD, HAZID (HAZARD IDENTIFICATION), HAZAN (HAZARD ANALYSIS), AND HAZOP (HAZARD AND OPERABILITY STUDIES) are important safety and risk management techniques in the steel industry (Figure).
Figure: SAFETY AND RISK MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES HAZARDS: Hazard is defined as ‘a condition, an event, or a circumstance that can lead to or contribute to an unplanned or undesirable event’. Hazard is a potential cause to generate a disaster. It has got the potential to cause (i) serious harm to the individual or the environment, (ii) harm, the severity of which depends on the extent and frequency of exposure to the hazard, and (iii) harm that does not usually occur, or is not usually detectable until a significant time (years) after exposure to the known hazard. Any activity, procedure, plant, process, substance, situation or other circumstance that has the potential to cause harm constitutes a hazard.