Hazard

How it is used

A basic word in safety documents. You identify, assess, eliminate and reduce hazards; common phrases are crushing hazard, electrical hazard and hazard zone.

Example sentences

1. The gap between the robot and the column is a crushing hazard.

2. List every hazard you find in the cell, even small ones like sharp edges on the fence.

Common collocations

• crushing hazard
• identify hazards
• electrical hazard
• hazard zone
• eliminate the hazard

Related terms

• risk assessmentA structured review of a machine or task that identifies hazards, estimates how likely and how serious harm could be, and decides which safety measures are needed.
• guardingPhysical barriers such as fences, covers and doors that keep people out of the dangerous area of a machine or robot cell while it is running.
• lockout/tagoutA safety procedure in which a machine's energy sources are switched off, locked with a personal padlock and tagged, so nobody can restart it during maintenance.
• emergency stopA red mushroom-shaped button on a yellow background, or the function behind it, that stops a machine as quickly and safely as possible in a dangerous situation.
• light curtainA safety device with a transmitter and a receiver that create a row of invisible light beams. When a person breaks the beams, the machine is stopped.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• hazard · Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing
• hazard · Chemical Engineering

More terms: Machine and Robot Safety

• interlock
• enabling switch
• protective stop
• collision detection