In any high-risk industry, especially mining, a shared understanding of safety terms isn’t just about jargon, it’s about life and limb.
Below are some safety nomenclatures and their definition:
Risk analysis: systematic process to understand the nature of and to deduce the level of risk.
Risk assessment: The overall process of risk identification, risk analysis, and risk evaluation.
Risk attitude: An organization’s approach to assess and eventually pursue, retain, take, or turn away from risk.
Risk avoidance: A decision not to become involved in, or to withdraw from, a risk situation.
Risk communication: Any two-way communication between stakeholders about the existence, nature, form, severity, or acceptability of risk.
Risk control option: An action intended to reduce the frequency and/or severity of injury or loss, including a decision not to pursue an activity.
Risk control strategy: A program that may include the application of several risk control options.
Unsafe condition: Any condition that, under the right circumstances, will result in an accident.
Unsafe act: An act that is not safe for an individual/worker.
Working: Any excavation made or being made in a mine for search of or obtaining coal/metallic ore.
Working place: Any place in a mine to which any person has lawful access.
Zero accident vision: Zero accident vision is a philosophy that states that nobody should be injured due to an accident. It is more a way of thinking rather than a numerical goal.
What other safety terms do you regularly use in your plant? Comment below!
Text rights: Debi Prasad Tripathy
Source: Mine Safety Science and Engineering Health and Disaster Management First Edition
