Full text and insights now available on Rulefinder
How do you provide peace of mind to your customers and investors when you have a product that is so innovative it falls outside of scope of standards or RCD? International standards are continually reviewed and updated to meet industry needs, but this process rightly takes time. Waiting is not a solution and safety must not be ignored. As a Notified Body, we believe that Risk Assessment is the answer. To set out a clear pathway, we’re currently working with ICOMIA to launch a Risk Assessment Guide for Small Craft. We hope this guide will be globally adopted as the industry’s way of handling the conformity assessment of innovative products.
The first step to a good risk assessment is HAZID (or Hazard Identification). To help naval architects and boatbuilders who work on innovative projects to get to grips with the principles of HAZID, we’ve added ISO 12100:2010 Safety of machinery – General principles for design – Risk assessment and risk reduction to Rulefinder, our online standards resource.
Now available to subscribers of our ‘complete’ or ‘systems and components’ packages, this standard was written to help designers achieve safety in the design of machinery. It lists every conceivable hazard that may exist and although there are no ‘marine’ hazards listed, it specifies the principles of risk assessment and risk reduction so is very relevant and useful, particularly to components and systems.
Procedures are described for:
– identifying hazards and estimating and evaluating risks during relevant phases of the machine life cycle.
– the elimination of hazards or the provision of sufficient risk reduction.
Guidance is also given on the documentation and verification of the risk assessment and risk reduction process.
NOTE 1 Annex B gives, in separate tables, examples of hazards, hazardous situations and hazardous events, in order to clarify these concepts and assist the designer in the process of hazard identification.
