Principles of fire risk assessment:
The following principles of FRAs apply in the UK as they do in the USA:
- giving the qualifications of the person conducting the FRA,
- a hazard is the potential for harm to occur,
- risk is likelihood of that hazard being realised and can be combined with the severity of the consequences,
- they can be conducted quantitatively (numbers) or qualitatively (ideas),
- they can be comparative or absolute,
- uncertainties should be accounted for
- 'what if' situations should be considered,
- matrices are sometimes used.