Health, Safety and Environmental risk assessment in automobile manufacturing industry based on FTA and FMEA methods

Abstract

The automobile manufacturing industry has always been the focus of experts attention and those involved in safety and environment due to its extensiveness, huge amount of capital, pervasive risks and large number of people working in this industry and extensive efforts takes place to increase the safety of this industry in the world. The primary purpose of risk assessment is to assess the risk potentials of a project and its potential effects on environmental and human health parameters. This viewpoint can be considered by managers and planners in the processes of design, construction, implementation and maintenance of development plans with the least possible risks and the highest safety. In this research, after conducting library and preliminary studies, we collected information from companies in the utomobile manufacturing industry to analyze the causes of the accidents. Then, by using FTA and FMEA methods, the roots of different types of accidents were traced. The results show that in the initial risk assessment, the highest number of the risk is related to fire risk and the lowest number of the risk is related to dust, glass fiber dust and throwing objects.