In process industries even when the risks are deemed tolerable or broadly acceptable, companies may still need to do more to demonstrate that they are as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP).

Green World’s competent team can help companies to demonstrate ALARP by considering additional potential risk reduction measures to see if implementation is reasonably practicable, which requires the use of Cost Benefit Analysis. At Green World we have recognized tools and techniques for dealing with all of these issues, delivering reliable results that have proved acceptable to the Regulators over many years.

Does your organization’s risk assessment indicate that the results are intolerable? If the law insists you stop your existing activities and demands a new way of approach, this requires an ALARP demonstration.

Risk is a broad term that typically refers to the potential consequences of a hazard that accentuates:

• Identifying the hazards – Unless the hazard is identified, risk assessment can’t be done.
• Determine the consequences of the hazard – which probably arise from the hazard.
• Find out the possibilities of how these consequences would arise.

Define the risks by combining the possibilities and the consequences, where the results need comparison against ‘appropriate’ risk tolerability criteria.

Despite the fact that the risk has been determined to be acceptable or deemed tolerable, it is still needed to bring the risk downwards and demonstrate they are as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP), e.g. as implied under COMAH.

Demonstration of ALARP can be achieved by considering additional potential risk reduction measures to see if the implementation is reasonably practicable, which requires the use of a Cost Benefit Analysis. If the cost of an additional measure is deemed ‘grossly disproportionate’ in comparison with the level of risk reduction achieved then there is no requirement to install it, but the opposite is also true.

At Green World, we have recognized tools and techniques for dealing with all of these issues, delivering reliable results that have proved acceptable to the Regulators over many years.