Many of you are still convinced, that a risk assessment is an unnecessary piece of document that eventually some lonely inspector wants to see. This assessment is totally unrelated to the actual design of the ride and was done after the completion of the design anyway. So why should it matter to do one?
BECAUSE:
- Even if you have not written a risk assessment when you started your design, you did one in your head.
- And because you did it in your head you never wrote down how bad of an event it is or what the probability of occurrence is.
- Without that information, you simply don’t know if your design withstands the necessary risk reduction.
- Or could there be other ways to mitigate that risk? E.g. operational, saving me lots of $$$?
- You can be the best design engineer but if your base/input information is wrong your work might be inadequate and potentially deficient.
- If you are managing design people are you sure your staff is competent enough to execute their safety-relevant design tasks? Prove it.
- Writing a risk assessment during the initial phase of a development process saves everybody’s body parts they are sitting on, now and in the future.
- Walking into a courtroom without a comprehensive risk assessment on hand is asking for a bad day.
Best regards,
ADVANTIS Team
