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What are triggers?
TRAINING / IMPLEMENTING / IMPROVING Hazard Awareness • JHA • QRA • HSE-MS - Plans & Audit • Culture Surveys.

2. What are triggers?
Triggers are the mechanisms that make hazards go out of control.
If you think about this, it makes sense.
Hazards have the potential to cause harm.
But so long as we’re managing them, we’re perfectly safe.
For an accident to occur, there has to be something that causes the hazard to go out of control.
That something is a triggering mechanism!
Triggers release the hazard and make them go out of control.

3. Examples of triggers Slippery surfaces Criminal intentions
Worn-out webbing slings
Poor decision-making
Strong sun-light
Risk taking behaviours

4. Can you spot the triggers here?
How many triggers can you identify?
I bet you probably call them “hazards”.
You’d be wrong if you did!
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5. Correct answers All of these things are “triggers”
Untidy workplace (poor housekeeping).
All of these things are “triggers”
Uncontrolled sources of ignition present (i.e., power generation).
Not gas testing or monitoring.
Lack of use of appropriate PPE, no hard hat, no respirator, no chemical resistant clothing, etc.
Lack of access control (no barricading of the work site).
No compliance to standard Permit to Work requirements, no fire watch, no sentry, no register, no retrieval system.
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Other triggers include:
Inadequate supervision;
Inadequate contractor selection/management;
Sharp edges to tank entrance;
Uneven, unstable and sloping ground;
Inclement weather (e.g., high temperature); and
Use of sparking tools.
No edge protection around excavation”.
Inadequate berms or bunding for liquids.

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May 2011