Risk assessment methodology within the framework of integrated safety of industrial enterprises

Abstract

The article outlines consolidated research areas that bring risk assessment results into the integrated safety of industrial enterprises. The author compares currently used methods for assessing industrial safety, fire safety, and occupational safety subsystems, included in the system of integrated safety of industrial enterprises, and a new method for assessing integrated safety. Three tasks must be solved to make industrial enterprises safer. To solve the first task, scientific research results, currently applied in Russia and worldwide, were analyzed. The conclusion is that the damage from hazardous events can be reduced using a reasonable safety margin, required to reduce (eliminate) various risks, the rational application of the safety margin using the approach stemming from a new vision of risks. When the second task was solved, current methods of assessing subsystems of industrial safety, fire safety, and occupational safety, included in the system of integrated industrial safety, were compared with a new technique used to assess integrated safety. The objective of the third task was to present a formalized description of a new model for improving and developing an integrated safety system for explosive and flammable production facilities. The purpose of risk assessment is formulated; new integrated safety assessment methods and results are presented. As a result, the three above-mentioned tasks are solved, and the conceptual model of an integrated safety system is developed for Russian industrial enterprises.