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Defining Hazards. Okee Onwuka

Hazards are conditions that can lead to accidents or incidents that hurt people, damage the environment, or infrastructure. While incidents are identifiable as negative, hazards may not be as easily recognized or understood in terms of the harm they can cause. There can be multiple hazards present in any given situation that can interact. One example given is of a family bringing a running portable petrol generator into their tent during a rainy night of camping, which introduces several hazards, including carbon monoxide poisoning and fire, that threaten harm to the people inside the tent.

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Defining Hazards. Okee Onwuka

Hazards are conditions that can lead to accidents or incidents that hurt people, damage the environment, or infrastructure. While incidents are identifiable as negative, hazards may not be as easily recognized or understood in terms of the harm they can cause. There can be multiple hazards present in any given situation that can interact. One example given is of a family bringing a running portable petrol generator into their tent during a rainy night of camping, which introduces several hazards, including carbon monoxide poisoning and fire, that threaten harm to the people inside the tent.

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HAZARDS

Hazards are a part of our daily life. In our homes, on the road, air, sea, the work place, factories,
process plants, industries, man would always have to deal with hazards. Hazards are those
conditions, situations or scenarios which as stand-alone or in combination of other factors, events
or conditions lead to an incident or accident. In other words, hazards can lead to incidents that
can hurt people, the environment or damage infrastructure. While incidents are immediately
identifiable as negative or unwanted, Hazards may not have the same easy recognition, at least
with regard to how much harm they can cause. In street parlance, hazards can be described as
any dangerous condition. What further complicates the recognition of hazards is the fact that in
any given situation, there can be multiple hazards present. We shall illustrate the concept of
hazards using a number of examples and scenarios;

Case 1:
Placing a running portable Petrol fuelled Electric power inside a room or tent, to protect it from
rain on the outside or theft.
A family is out on a camping picnic and includes a portable petrol generator in their package.
They’ll need power during the night for lighting and other minor power needs. At night, it begins
to rain and to ‘protect’ the generator, it is brought into the big tent, where they would also sleep.
Are there are recognizable hazards in this scenario? With respect to harm to people, we identify
a few hazards

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