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Hazard

Meaning in industrial engineering & manufacturing, with examples

/ˈhæzərd/nounCore term

In industrial engineering & manufacturing, hazard means: Anything that could cause harm, injury or ill health, such as moving machine parts, chemicals, noise, electricity or a wet floor.

In Turkish: tehlike, tehlike kaynağı

How it is used

Used in risk assessments, safety walks and on signs. People identify, report, control and remove hazards. In safety language a hazard is the possible source of harm, while risk is how likely and how serious that harm is.

Example sentences

  1. Oil on the floor near press 3 is a slip hazard; please clean it up now.

  2. During the safety walk we found four new hazards in the warehouse.

Common collocations

  • identify hazards
  • slip hazard
  • fire hazard
  • report a hazard
  • hazard control
  • risk assessmentA careful review of a task or area to find the hazards, judge how likely and how serious harm would be, and decide what controls are needed.
  • near missAn unplanned event that could have caused injury or damage but did not, such as a box falling from a rack where someone had just been standing.
  • PPEShort for personal protective equipment: safety glasses, gloves, helmets, ear protection, safety shoes and other gear that protects workers from hazards.
  • machine guardingPhysical barriers and safety devices, such as fixed covers, interlocked doors and light curtains, that keep people away from the dangerous moving parts of machines.

This word in other fields

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