Workshop-based Hazard Identification

Helps ensure completeness by drawing on the collective experience of a group of experts.

• Systematic identification, by using wide-ranging expertise from a competent team, of all reasonably foreseeable hazards for the whole system under assessment, its functions where appropriate, and its interfaces.

Various approaches.

• Structured Hazard and Operability (HAZOP).

• A more informal ‘brainstorming’ exercise (e.g. based on checklists).

Some combination of the desk-based and workshop-based.

The approach or combination of approaches should be matched to the complexity and novelty of the system under assessment.