FREE 9+ Sample Hazard Analysis Templates in PDF

Hypothetical scenario; what if you fell into a shark tank? The ocean’s apex predator circling you as you struggle to both stay afloat and search underwater for this massive creature. What would your first instinct be? Panic? Swim in fear? Thrash in the water like a squirmy, delicious meal? Believe it or not, the best course of action is to stand your ground — or water in this case — and swim slowly and calmly away from the shark, and if it tries to attack you, swim towards it like you’re about to fight back. It may sound like suicide, but swimming away in a panic triggers the shark’s predatory instinct to HUNT YOU! Why is this important? Because assuming that you are safe will always get you into more danger than analyzing the situation and assessing the threat.

Hypothetical scenario; what if you fell into a shark tank? The ocean’s apex predator circling you as you struggle to both stay afloat and search underwater for this massive creature. What would your first instinct be? Panic? Swim in fear? Thrash in the water like a squirmy, delicious meal? Believe it or not, the best course of action is to stand your ground — or water in this case — and swim slowly and calmly away from the shark, and if it tries to attack you, swim towards it like you’re about to fight back. It may sound like suicide, but swimming away in a panic triggers the shark’s predatory instinct to HUNT YOU! Why is this important? Because assuming that you are safe will always get you into more danger than analyzing the situation and assessing the threat.

Sample Hazard Analyses

Hazard analyses have multiple roles in our society; they serve as quality control for certain products, food items, and chemicals, they examine how likely it is for software or program to crash, even the general safety of a working environment is something hazard analyses can cover. These documents are, without a doubt, crucial to a successful business, which means that being able to create high-quality documents is an essential asset to have.

1. Sample Hazard Analysis

This sample hazard analysis is more closely related to a checklist but that doesn’t mean it’s not as effective. This PDF lists down everything that you need to look out for or identify when inspecting a work area for possible risks. Give it a read and see what you can learn and apply at your workplace, who knows, this could save a life.

2. Sample Food Risk Assessment

Food is a daily necessity as well as a luxury. In fact, restaurants have made millions serving customers fancy food and advertising their dishes through various marketing strategies. However, the same thing that we need to live could potentially be what kills us; food can be dangerous if either prepared in an unhygienic manner, filled with toxic chemicals, or if you’re allergic.

Now, despite allergies and lack of cleanliness being unfortunate for you and your meal, they can easily be avoided by avoiding these dishes or making food yourself to ensure you’re safe from these. Chemicals, on the other hand, are much more dangerous since there are plenty of ways you can ingest a harmful chemical such as pesticide on produce, animal meat steroids, or the “process” in processed food. This sample food risk assessment can help you analyze the potential dangers of what you eat and help you keep yourself and loved ones safe.

3. Sample Hazard Identification Guide

As crucial as hazard identification is, there is no denying its difficulty if you don’t know what you’re doing. Sure it’s common knowledge to not play with fire, talk to strangers, or walk in a dark alley, but what about working in an industrial farm? It doesn’t seem dangerous at first glance, right? However, working at a farm has its perils (both for you and the produce and animals you work with). How about we flip the coin? What about working at a nuclear powerplant? Everyone knows that it’s perilous, and specific procedures need to be followed.

That’s the keyword in all of this; procedures that have been refined through hazard identification. This sample hazard identification guide can help you analyze and identify the many dangers that you might encounter and create procedures to prevent these from happening.

4. Sample Job Hazard Analysis

The title says it all at this point; this sample job hazard analysis gives you the ability to foresee the possible dangers that come with a specific job. If you’re an employer, this can help you with employee selection, and it’s particularly handy in court if your workforce knows the possible hazards that come with the job and still give their consent. If you’re the job seeker, however, this gives you an idea of what the situation is like, if the pay is worth it, and if you can genuinely handle the work.

5. Sample Hazard Analysis Guidelines

Ever wonder how the Federal Transit Administration figure out where, how, and what routes a transit should take? Well, the US Department of Transportation ensures that before construction even begins, everyone involved in the project knows the possible hazards in building the train and tracks, in the operations, and how they can be reduced. This sample hazard analysis guidelines come from them and explains in full detail how hazard analysis guidelines are followed for data legitimacy and effective safety management.

6. Sample Software Hazard Analysis

Even software can pose a threat to a company at any given time. However, like all risks, they can be prevented from happening — even controlled — when they do occur if you have the knowledge to do so. Reading this sample software hazard analysis will give you an idea on what to look for such as “If the system is working properly, what are the possible things that could mess it up?” and “If the system malfunctions, what caused the malfunction and how can it be fixed?” Beneficial information for companies whose entire business revolves around operating a software.

7. Sample Hazard Identification and Evaluation

Research laboratories have plenty of dangerous chemicals and tools that — if things do go wrong — could lead to death. In fact, it’s so delicate that this PDF was created to inform people of the possible dangers of a lab (not the breed of dog, the place). Now, even though this sample hazard identification and evaluation PDF revolves around laboratory safety and precaution, the information here can be applied by other companies or workplaces to increase safety and risk awareness.

8. Sample HAZOP Guide

There are multiple valid ways to probe a setting or situation for possible outbursts of hazard, and HAZOP is one of them. HAZOP stands for Hazard and Operability Analysis and is a well-known technique for risk management and safety procedure creation. It involves you and your team theory-crafting of all the potential dangers that could occur and prepare adequately for it. This sample HAZOP guide can aid you and your team in brainstorming for the company’s future and safety.

9. Sample Program Hazard Analysis

This sample program hazard analysis doesn’t actually cover any digital program (that’s more up the alley of the software hazard analysis). Instead, this PDF from the official Boyscouts of America assess “program activities” that the scouts go through. You can also apply these guidelines to company programs and outings as they follow the same principle and goal; to keep everyone safe while they’re having fun.

10. Sample Safety Analysis

The goal of any hazard analysis is to produce possible threats that can be avoided and prepared for. With this in mind, a safety analysis is the sister of hazard analysis, and has a slightly different goal; to produce safety procedures that everyone at work are must follow to keep them out of harm’s way. These two analyses work hand in hand to make sure nobody suddenly dies from a seafood allergy or accidentally starts a nuclear meltdown — you get the picture right? This sample safety analysis PDF is easy to download, understand, and exceedingly useful in keeping your employees in one piece.

As stated before, the most dangerous thing a person, company, or business can do are either assume that they are safe 100% of the time, or that they “know” how to keep safe while simultaneously smoking beside a gas tank. Safety, in any workplace, should be number one priority, and you can ensure that with the help of a hazard analysis, and the samples provided for you to get started.