Safety Case Report-Risk and Resilience Report 2022

CMM92001-2019-2: Risk and Resilience
Engineering Assessment 3 Safety Case Report

Safety Case Report-Risk and Resilience
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Background................................................................................................................................3
Risks Categorisation...................................................................................................................3
Electrical hazards...................................................................................................................3
Mechanical hazards................................................................................................................4
Construction hazards..............................................................................................................5
Physical security hazards.......................................................................................................5
Site security hazards...............................................................................................................6
Governmental manipulation hazards......................................................................................6
Human engineering hazards...................................................................................................6
Financial Risks.......................................................................................................................7
Mitigation of the risks................................................................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
Recommendations......................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................10
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Introduction
The report is aimed to identify the risk factors lurking in various aspects of technology and
the method of their mitigation in a detailed manner. The bane of the risk issues, the initial
risks associated, and the way of mitigation will be discussed. Besides these, the other vital
factors like the impact of these casualties on the families of the victims and the evidence of
the risks associated with the casualties in the past have been duly reflected. Different trades
of technology have variegated features associated with them, and so do the risks prevail with
boundless textures. However, in the following discussion, all the nuances of these avocations
ranging from mitigation procedure to risk probabilities have been explored.
Background
Worldly affairs and human lifestyle together form an epitome of all the tardiness and
intricacy that people can ever imagine. Starting from the somersault of human civilization
with its infirm limbs in the cradle of Mother Nature till now, people have sought for
convenience in performing their daily tasks pertaining to their lifestyle. Keeping this aim in
mind, human beings have delved into the sea of wisdom to fetch the much-needed remedy for
this issue. They have been indeed triumphant in their each and every endeavour to inch
gradually closer towards being technically erudite. Thus the hard work of our enlightened
predecessors has engendered the so-called concept of technology and its related artefacts to
churn out nemesis for the pursuit of convenience. Their efforts have guided the present
generation to build complicated devices like robots, spaceships and other mesmerising
constructions. However, with the evolution of technological trades like electrical, mechanical,
and so-called other engineering streams, there has been an equal risk of the machine and
human-induced casualties. This has led the scientists and technocrats to invent new
techniques for plugging in the loopholes of security in modern technological devices.
However, to execute these concepts in reality, some established procedures are followed to
achieve the objective.
Risks Categorisation
Electrical hazards
The electrical engineering is based on a concept of manufacturing and operating devices
which are propelled by colossal amounts of voltages and electric current. The electric current,
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being a gainful and precarious aspect at the same time, needs to be given sharp vigil by fits
and starts.
In the case of electrical machines, the risks associated with it are significantly due to the
under-rated and inferior quality materials used in constructing the electrical devices. This
happens when the constructors are taken for a ride by the suppliers or when embezzlement in
funds is the motive of the concerned misdemeanours (Seay et al., 2017). As a consequence of
the purchase of poor quality materials, in many cases, part of the machines under operation
goes to abeyance or calls it a day. In most of the cases of past casualties in this aspect, there
has been the issuance of safety reports defining the reason for the collapse. These reports
substantiate the risk factors associated with using inferior materials in constructing machines.
These risks can spew disaster if they are materialised and can lead to massive loss of property
or lives. However, hopefully, these risks can be mitigated by debarring overused and old
systems from use. Besides this, it must be ensured that machine parts of supreme quality are
purchased. Along with all these, the impaired machine parts must be detected with
impeccable expertise and isolated from the whole system, followed by suitable replacement.
Besides these, there must be proper rein in of the expert engineers on the whole process of
manufacture and acquisition of materials (Raguseo, 2018).
Proper administrative overseeing will also greatly abet the process of risk mitigation.
However, the process of mitigation has to be carried out by electrical engineers. After the
aforesaid mitigation tasks are done, the risks are made sublime, but they are not fully
nullified. After the second week, when the risk observation and their initial resolution has
been fulfilled, the second stage of mitigation has risk minimization has to be carried out in a
similar manner. Now, the risks are highly blunted with a low probability of occurrence. The
effect of any accident would, however, still be catastrophic. The engineers need to efficiently
audit, test and inspect the machines for ensuring sheer safety.
Mechanical hazards
In mechanical systems, the hazards have been depicted with respect to diesel plants. A dire
issue related to this aspect has been identified where diesel-run systems fail to shut down the
system (Mur et al., 2016). In this case of system failure, the diesel generators fail to
deactivate a diesel-run machine when shutdown command is passed on by the operator
(Haukioja, et al., 2018). These defects occur because in almost all cases of machine failure,
the operators have failed to fathom the mechanism of the shutdown. There has been a lack of
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