Industrial safety
Industrial Safety Glossary
Safety teams in plants, ports and energy facilities work with the same vocabulary every day: permits, indicators, isolation procedures, incident classifications. This glossary explains each term the way it is actually used on site rather than the way it reads in a textbook — what it is, why it matters, and how it is measured or applied. Every term is available in Arabic and English, because teams here use both in the same working day.
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Measurement
Measurement and indicators
How safety performance is measured on a site, from the lagging counts that record what already happened to the leading activity that tries to prevent it. The difference between the two is the difference between knowing a site’s history and knowing its direction.
- LTI (Lost Time Injury)
- TRIR (Total Recordable Incident Rate)
- Safety KPIs (leading and lagging indicators)
Permits
Permits and procedures
The paperwork and daily routines that make high-hazard work, and an ordinary shift start, safe by design rather than by habit. Each one is a procedure repeated daily on a multi-contractor site, not a rare exception.
- Permit to work
- Lockout tagout (LOTO)
- JSA (Job Safety Analysis)
- Toolbox talk
Hazards
Hazards and environment
The conditions a site has to actively control for, and the events that reveal where that control is weakest before someone is hurt. Some are managed by a written procedure; others only surface as a pattern in small, repeated events.
- Confined space
- Work at height
- Near miss
- Risk assessment
- Risk matrix
- HAZOP (Hazard and Operability Study)
- Emergency plan
- Work injuries
Equipment
Equipment and frameworks
What a worker wears on site, and the management structures that govern health, safety and environment together, at site level and across a company. The two management terms differ only in ordering, not in substance, and the difference is worth stating plainly.
Every term above links to its own page, in English and Arabic. New terms are added in the same place in the same group, so the list stays complete for a reader skimming it.
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