Fault Tree Analysis.

By Manoj Kumar(hseguru@yahoo.in/+91–8252771261,Aadhaar
No.584186777088).

Hi,This is Manoj Kumar(HSE Professional with 15 years experience in

various MNCs). Today I am going to discuss very effective tool for
logical risk assessment method, which is widely utilized to determine
the possible causes and occurrence probability of an unexpected event,
called top event (system failure).

Procedure of Fault Tree Analysis:

 Define the primary failure to be analyzed. In other words, identify

the undesirable top event.

 Identify first-level contributors who are just below the top level
using the available technical information.
  Link these contributors to the top-level event using logical gates
(AND, OR gates), and also see the relationship to help identify
the appropriate logical gate.

 Identify the second-level contributors and link to the top by using

logical gates.

 Identify the minimal cut set.

 Repeat the same steps till the basic causes,

 Finally, complete and evaluate the FTA.

 Calculate the probability of the lowest level element occurrence

and also measure the probabilities from the bottom up.

Example of FTA
A fire broke out at unit 1 of ABC cable manufacturing
company despite the safety system in place. The General
Manager was very concerned about the accident and
requested the Safety Officer in charge to evaluate the system.
However, as part of the initial analysis of the existing system,
the safety team used FTA to identify the different causes of
the accident.