ALARP for Engineers: A Technical Safety Guide – Applying the As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) Principle in Engineering Risk Management
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A comprehensive technical safety guide published by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), explaining how engineers can identify hazards, evaluate risks and demonstrate that risks have been reduced As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP).
The guide covers UK safety legislation, reasonable foreseeability, risk reduction measures, proportionality, qualitative and quantitative risk assessment, lifecycle safety management and the preparation of a well-reasoned ALARP demonstration.
By Institution of Mechanical Engineers · Published 2026-11-07 · Updated 2026-11-14
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ALARP FOR ENGINEERS: A TECHNICAL SAFETY GUIDE. Safety and Reliability Group Improving the world through engineering
The IMechE Safety and Reliability Group promotes the development of safety and reliability requirements for products such as equipment, systems, or services. The IMechE Safety and Reliability Group What we do: • Provide best practice guides and information to engineers associated with designing, manufacturing, operating or maintaining products. • Increase the public understanding of risk, while continuing to work on the assessment of Hazardous events, dissemination of lessons learned and the promotion of risk reduction strategies. • Represent the Institution on the Hazards Forum which provides an interdisciplinary focus for the study of disasters. • Organise events, such as the annual ALARP Seminar. • Support Proceeding of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability. We strive to produce up to date, effective communications and therefore welcome any comments on this document, or ideas for improving future revisions. Please send your contributions to: keith.miller@member.imeche.org. The SRG is a voluntary group, which meets …
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