ABSTRACT
Risk analysis is complementary to these different activities. Risk analysis is a planned activity, where we want to identify and remedy hazards before accidents and near accidents happen. Risk analysis is thus anticipatory in nature and supports feed-forward processes rather than the feedback processes of, for example, accident investigations. By applying risk analysis, we will speed up the learning processes. Evaluations show that properly executed risk analyses of work systems will reveal hazards corresponding to many years of accident experience from the same types of systems (Suokas,
Risk analysis is a collective name for different methods involving the following activities (cf. CEN, 1996; ISO, 1999):
Defining the analysis ohject and determining its limits. The object is a geographical area of a plant, a machine, a job, etc.
