HSE Management

HSE means a Health, Safety and Environment (HSE), Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) or Safety, Health and Environment (SHE). A HSSE stands for Health, Safety, Security and Environment.

HSE (Health, Safety and Environment) Management is a company or organisation effort to minimise accidental hazards in the workplaces. A HSE Management ensures the reduction of employee health, safety, environment, and security risk and streamline HSE compliance including the training, accident response, emergency preparations, etc.

HSE (Health, Safety and Environment) Management System is a company or organisation management structure with the responsibilities, practices, procedures, processes, and resources for implementing health, safety and environment (HSE) management to minimise accidental hazards in the workplaces.

HSE (Health, Safety and Environment) Plan is a plan document that introduces to ensure the health, safety and environmental (HSE) issues are properly covered during a project development stage including an establishment of the HSE management system, implementation of the HSE policy, and achievement of the HSE objectives effectively. HSE Plan is designed in accordance with the legislative requirements, laws and regulation, covering the roles and responsibilities of the employer and employees, emergency action plan, and so on.

HSE (Health, Safety and Environment) Policy is a written statement by an employer stating the company's commitment for the protection of health and safety of employees and to the public. HSE Policy statement is a company policy document for the business includes how company will manage the health, safety and environmental matters in the business and communicate. A HSE Policy should clearly defines who does what and when and how.

HSEIA (Health, Safety and Environmental Impact Assessment) is a systematic process of identifying on the health, safety and environment impacts of existing, new or substantially altered projects and establishing mitigation requirements. A HSEIA is a guideline and standard covering the entire range of health, safety and environment requirements and issues that includes an overview of HSE management principles of a facility and assess anticipated hazards and impacts; making recommendations on issues throughout the lifecycle.

HSSE stands for Health, Safety, Security and Environment.

Well-Being is a positive outcome that is meaningful for people and for many sectors of society, because it tells us that people perceive that their lives are going well. Good living conditions (e.g., housing, employment) are fundamental to well-being. Tracking these conditions is important for public policy. However, many indicators that measure living conditions fail to measure what people think and feel about their lives, such as the quality of their relationships, their positive emotions and resilience, the realization of their potential, or their overall satisfaction with life. Well-being generally includes global judgments of life satisfaction and feelings ranging from depression to joy. (Source: http://www.cdc.gov)

Health is defined by WHO as: "State of complete physical, mental, and social well being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”

Adverse Health Effect is any change in a structural and/or functional abnormality that can lead to disease, health problem, or potential of lowering the quality of life.

Adverse Reaction is any unexpected, undesirable, or dangerous effect of a drug, vaccine, or medical device.

Biocycle is any cycle of biological phenomena which occurs in a particular organism, or energy and essential substances are transferred among species of the environment, or the natural monthly fluctuations in humans (Biorhythm).

Biological Environmental Exposure Levels (BEELs) are health-based guide values for the biological equivalent of the WEEL (Workplace Environmental Exposure Levels) that are considered for establishment in tandem with WEELs or to supplement other exposure guide values and those related to skin and/or oral exposure. (Refer to the Workplace Environmental Exposure Levels (WEELs))

Biorhythm is the regular pattern and natural monthly fluctuations of physical processes in an organism that is an attempt to predict various aspects of a person's life through simple mathematical cycles. Biorhythms are: physical - effects the physical aspect of the body; emotional - the nervous system and the sensitivity rhythm; intellectual - originates in the brain. The Biorhythm Cycles pass through positive and negative phases, and a cycle passes from positive to negative or negative to positive is the critical days.

Body Mass Index (BMI) is a value of the mass (weight) and height of a person defined as a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters that is commonly used to classify underweight, overweight and obesity in adults. Overweight is a BMI of 27.3 or more for women and 27.8 or more for men.

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Safety is a condition of the freedom from danger, risk, or threat of harm, injury, or loss to personnel and/or property in human life, economics or environment. 

Accident is an unplanned, unexpected, undersigned, and not intended bad event happen with the damage, loss, or injure.

Accident Initiated Event is an event which is the first event in an event sequence that is caused a disturbance and the potential to lead to core damage, depending on the required mitigating systems in the plant.

Alarm Management is the process of effectively handling and responding to alarms that controls and manages the design of alarm systems with human factors, instrumentation engineering and systems. The Alarm Management System includes procedures, documentations, characterisations, logics, prioritisations, schematics, software and hardware, and maintenance, etc. in various systems, such as industrial control systems, computer networks, and security systems for the classifying alerts, prioritising, grouping and event notifications. (Refer to the Alarm Flooding)

ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practicable) is a term used in the health and safety system by the regulation and management of safety-critical and safety-involved systems. An ALARP is as satisfying requirement to keep the risk level as low as possible which the risk is the combination of the frequency (likelihood) and consequence of a specified hazardous event. (Refer to the SFAIRP (so far as is reasonably practicable))

Alert Level (or Threat Level) is a term used by the government, organisation or company to indicate the state of preparedness required by a responsible department or an agency and their staffs should react to each alert level based on the level of threat. The Alert Level describes a progressive, qualitative measure of the likelihood from negligible to imminent, based on the government or company intelligence information.

Cause-Consequence Analysis (or Cause-Consequence Diagrams) is an analytical technique used in risk management for a better understanding of failures by assessing the probability of failures of systems with a focus on their causes that is a method for illustrating the possible outcomes arising from the logical combination of selected input events or states. The Cause Consequence Analysis combines the inductive and deductive reasoning of logic diagrams. (e.g., a combination of Fault Tree and Event Tree models)

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Environment is the living and working conditions, situations, or external surrounding conditions that can be the natural or people made and people itself.

Acid Rain or Acid Deposition is a rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic and possesses high level of hydrogen ions (low pH), and contains large amounts of harmful chemicals such as sulfuric or nitric acid. The Acid Rain falls to the ground from the atmosphere in wet or dry forms within the rain, snow, fog, hail or even dust that is acidic, and caused by emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, which reacts with the water molecules in the atmosphere to produce acids. It can have harmful effects on plants, aquatic animals, and infrastructure as a result of burning substances such as coal and oil.

Air Pollutant is the substances in air that is used as indicators of air quality and related to health and/or environmental effects. The Air Pollutant consists of solid particles, liquid droplets or gases, or combinations of these forms. (e.g., The Volatile Organic Chemicals (VOC))

Air Pollution is the presence of concentrated contaminant or pollutant substances in the air including gases, particulates, and biological molecules that does not disperse properly. The Air Pollution interferes with biological processes including human health and economics, or produce other harmful environmental effects.

Air Pollution Index (API) is a quantitative measure that describes ambient air quality and ranges of values as a means of reporting the quality of air instead of using the actual concentration of air pollutants. An API is used in Malaysia, China, and Hong Kong.

Air Quality Standard is the limits on the quantity of air pollutants allowed in outside or indoor air as established by regulations that may not be exceeded a given period time in a defined area.

Best Available Techniques (BAT) means the available techniques in the environmental industry which are the best for preventing or minimising emissions and impacts on the environment. (Refers to the State of the Art)

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Waste Management

Waste means any material (solid, liquid or gas) which is no further useful purpose in terms of own purposes of production at that location.

Waste Management is the activities to prevent the waste production and properly handle the waste materials through the process modification to minimise, reuse or recycle them. The Waste Management include wastes collection, transport, treatment, and disposal, wastes control and monitoring, and wastes related regulations of the production, collection, transport, treatment, and disposal, etc.

Advanced Treatment Technology uses the State of the Art and research-backed technologies to design with qualities specific to each application across multiple industries: 1) for water treatment, the technology includes the membrane filtration, membrane bioreactors (MBR) and membrane distillation are discussed including case study references; 2) for waste water, the process capable of reducing specific constituents in waste water not normally achieved by other treatment options that may be used in conjunction with mechanical and biological treatment operations.

Biological Waste is the waste material containing mostly natural organic materials including surgical wraps, culture tubes, syringes, needles, blood vials, absorbent material, personal protective equipment and pipette tips.

Hazardous Waste is the waste substance with potentially dangerous or harmful to human health or the environment such as toxic, infectious, radioactive or flammable substances.

Hazardous Waste Treatment is any method, process, or technique, including neutralisation, designed to change any hazardous waste to allowing for disposal as gases and solid residues.

Industrial Waste is the waste produced by industrial activity that consists of solid and liquid products combusted directly to produce heat and/or power.

Radioactive Waste

Security is a protection of the person, information or property against assault, damage, fire, fraud, invasion of privacy, theft, unlawful entry, and other such occurrences caused by deliberate action.

Security Plan is a documented formal plan that describes a plan for security issues and related events or processes including security assessment, security risks management, mitigation options, and aligns with priorities and objectives.

Security Risk is any event to cause danger or difficulty against outside or others that could result in harm to people, organisational assets, personal interest of individuals, etc.

Film Badge is a packet of photographic film worn by personnel, which provides an approximate measure of radiation exposure for personnel monitoring, purposes. The badge may contain two or more films of different sensitivities, and it may contain filters that shield parts of the film from certain types of radiation.

Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is a type of network security technology designed to automatically alert administrators when any suspicious activities such as the malicious activity or policy violations is discovered. Some IDS’s are capable of taking actions when malicious activity or anomalous traffic is detected, including blocking traffic. Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) is extended IDS solutions by adding the ability to block threats in addition to detecting them.

Personnel Monitoring Device is to determine by either physical or biological measurements, usually electronic devices are used to record, regulate, or control a process or system. The most common monitoring method is the use of a film badge. In radiation using industry, the Personnel Monitoring Device provides information that leads to identification of undesirable practices and of unexpected sources of high exposure to workers to hazardous materials including the ionising radiation in the workplace.

Privacy is the right to keep personal matters and relationships secret that applies to data subjects while confidentiality applies to data.

Zone of Security is the grouping of logical or physical elements by which a security policy can be applied to control the security matters between zones.

Active Fire Protection (AFP) System is an integral part of the fire protection systems including the water sprinkler and spray systems installed in the process industries for protection of facilities. (Refer to the PFP (Passive Fire Protection) System)

Acute Effect is an adverse effect on a human or animal body resulting in serious symptoms that develop rapidly during short-term exposure to toxic chemicals or substances. (Refer to the Chronic Effect)

Acute Exposure is the single exposure for a short-term or rare to a toxic or harmful substance that causes severe harm or unlikely to recur.

Advanced Plastic Recycling technologies turn used solid plastic into its gas or liquid raw materials to be remade into brand new plastic for use in virtually any plastic product or packaging. The Advanced Plastic Recycling technologies can be used to regenerate polymers, or breakdown polymer chains to produce feedstock that can be used to create new plastics, fuels, or other products by methods such as dissolving with chemicals or using heat to break them down into original components.

Agroecology is the study of the agricultural production systems and environments.

Alarm Flooding is a condition of presenting more alarms in a given period of time than a human operator can effectively respond. Alarm Flooding was an issue in the Texaco Milford Haven Refinery explosion and fire in 1994 which injured 26 people and caused around £48 million in damages and production losses.

ALARA stands for as low as reasonably achievable (Refer to the ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practicable))

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Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and is recognized as the nation’s premiere health promotion, prevention, and preparedness agencies. (Source: www.cdc.gov/)

Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) is a non-profit organisation that supports informed debate on energy and climate change issues in the UK. Climate change presents important challenges and opportunities to Britons in the decades ahead, while the choices we make on energy have implications for society, the economy and the climate system. We believe that debates on these issues should be underpinned by evidence, and involve the full range of stakeholders. We support journalists, parliamentarians and other communicators with accurate and accessible briefings on key issues, and work with individuals and organisations that have interesting stories to tell, helping them connect to the national conversation. (Source: https://eciu.net/)

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Born in the wake of elevated concern about environmental pollution, EPA was established on December 2, 1970 to consolidate in one agency a variety of federal research, monitoring, standard-setting and enforcement activities to ensure environmental protection. Since its inception, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people. (Source: www3.epa.gov)

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)’s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from and mitigate all hazards. (Source: www.fema.gov/)

IPIECA (International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association) is the global oil and gas industry association for environmental and social issues. IPIECA was formed in 1974 following the launch of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). IPIECA is the only global association involving both the upstream and downstream oil and gas industry on environmental and social issues. IPIECA’s membership covers over half of the world’s oil production. IPIECA is the industry’s principal channel of communication with the United Nations. (Source: www.ipieca.org)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is an agency that enriches life through science. Our reach goes from the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor as we work to keep citizens informed of the changing environment around them. From daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings, and climate monitoring to fisheries management, coastal restoration and supporting marine commerce, NOAA’s products and services support economic vitality and affect more than one-third of America’s gross domestic product. NOAA’s dedicated scientists use cutting-edge research and high-tech instrumentation to provide citizens, planners, emergency managers and other decision makers with reliable information they need when they need it. (http://www.noaa.gov)

NOAA’s National Centres for Environmental Information (NCEI) are responsible for hosting and providing access to one of the most significant archives on earth, with comprehensive oceanic, atmospheric, and geophysical data. The demand for high-value environmental data and information has dramatically increased in recent years. To improve our ability to meet that demand, NOAA’s former three data centres—the National Climatic Data Centre, the National Geophysical Data Centre, and the National Oceanographic Data Centre, which includes the National Coastal Data Development Centre—have merged into the National Centres for Environmental Information. (Source: www.ncei.noaa.gov, www.ncdc.noaa.gov)

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is part of the United States Department of Labour to assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance. OSHA standards are rules that describe the methods employers are legally required to follow to protect their workers from hazards. Before OSHA can issue a standard, it must go through a very extensive and lengthy process that includes substantial public engagement, notice and comment. The agency must show that a significant risk to workers exists and that there are feasible measures employers can take to protect their workers. (Source: www.osha.gov)

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment. (Source: www.unep.org)

U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) mission is to address the nation’s Cold War environmental legacy resulting from five decades of nuclear weapons production and government-sponsored nuclear energy research. This legacy includes some of the world’s most dangerous radioactive sites with large amounts of radioactive wastes, spent nuclear fuel (SNF), excess plutonium and uranium, thousands of contaminated facilities, and contaminated soil and groundwater. Created in 1989, EM has the responsibility for completing the clean-up of this Cold War legacy and managing the remaining nuclear materials. As the largest environmental clean-up program in the world, EM has been charged with the responsibility of cleaning up 107 sites across the country whose area is equal to the combined area of Rhode Island and Delaware. EM has made substantial progress in nearly every area of nuclear waste clean-up and as of September 2012, completed clean-up at 90 of these sites. (Source: http://energy.gov/)