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Abbreviations used in this book

Abbreviation Expansion
5W1H Who, What, Why, When, Where, How (a risk technique)
AS Australia (as in Australian standard)
AS/NZS Australia and New Zealand (as in joint standards)
CSA Control self-assessment (a risk technique)
FMECA Failure Modes, Effects and Consequences Analysis (a risk technique)
HACCP Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (a risk technique, usually in the food industry)
HAZOP HAZard and OPerability study (a risk technique)
HSP Health and Safety Practitioner (sometimes a health and Safety Professional)
HSWA Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (sometimes may refer to the 1974 British Act)
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
INSHPO International Network of Safety and Health Practitioners Organisations
ISO International Standards Organization
JSA Job Safety Analysis (a risk technique)
LOPA Layers of Protection Analysis (a risk technique)
LTA Less Than Adequate (used in the MORT chart and manual)
MCDA Multicriteria Decision Analysis (a risk technique)
MORT Management Oversight and Risk Tree (a risk technique)
OHS Occupational Health and Safety
OHSMS Occupational health and safety management system
OTIF95 On time, in full, 95% of the time
PCBU Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking
PESTLE Political, Economic, and financial, Social and cultural, Technological, Legal, and regulatory, and Environmental context (a risk technique)
SME Small and Medium Enterprise
SWIFT Structured What-If-Then (a risk technique)
SWOT Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (a risk technique)
WHS Workplace health and safety

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