Hazard and Risk Assessment

6.1 Hazard and Risk Assessment

A hazard is a potential damage, adverse health or harm that may effects something or someone at any conditions. Other than that, the risk may be high or low, that somebody could be harmed depending on the hazards. Risk assessment is a practice that helps to improve higher quality of the develop process and manufacturing process. It is also a step to examine the failure modes of the product in order to achieve higher standard of safety and product reliability. Unfortunately, it is common that a product safety risk assessments are not undertaken, or not carried out effectively by manufacturer. Mostly an unsafe and unreliable product was produced and launched on to the market. Thus, the safety problems are mostly identified after an accident happened or after manufacturing problems arisen. In order to prevent risk, a person should take enough precautions or should do more to prevent them because as a user should be protected from harm that usually caused by a failure for whom did not take reasonable control measures.

6.2 Common water taps hazard/failure modes and risk

Water tap has become an important part for household, business, and also buildings. Modern water tap nowadays are well engineered and can long last but depend on the types of the materials. Many people would prefer to replace the design when remodeling. There are many reasons that causes failure modes for water tap.

Hazards/Failure Modes Risk Happen Ways To Prevent

Leaking and Dripping Cause noisy sound Install new parts and change the damaged parts

Sharp Edges Causes minor Injury or accident cut Conduct a perfect and good finishing for the product.

Corrosion Health problems or may cause cancer problem. Select the better resistance...

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...corroded part. Other than that, by replacing new part would also minimize the effects of corrosion. By replacing materials will not changes water’s corrosiveness. In other words, it helps to minimize the risk. The corrosive water will generally corroding all the components in the water tap including water heaters and other water appliances.

A hot surface water tap would also may cause scalding burns. Scald burns are the common injuries occurs. By ways to prevent it by choosing the best materials which may withstand the heat and also temperature of the water flow. For example is by choosing the best materials, such as brass and nickel materials. The metal is a resistance of corrosion, fatigue resistance, and also heat conductivity that makes it suitable to be used in household or in buildings appliances. But a normal tap water will have a different heat resistance.