Comparison of hazop and 5*5 applications in an example knitted fabric sector

With the increase of the occupational accidents, the importance of occupational health and safety is getting to the foreground every day. Occupational health and safety are designed to ensure the safety of production and operation, especially for the safety of employees. The focus of these studies is on disciplined and regular risk assessment. With the risk assessment made, it is determined whether the risk for the enterprise is determined and whether the risk arising from the danger is estimated, the adequacy of the existing controls is considered, and whether it is considered risky. Decisions on necessary corrective and preventive actions are taken and job accidents are prevented. The textile sector is one of the locomotive sectors of our country. In this sense, it is also important that this sector is a sector with a high rate of exports. The textile industry itself has a wide range of products. Such an important sector cannot be ignored in the stages of production. In the machine-weighted textile sector, the speed of production after the industrial revolution has been accelerated, and a number of problems have also been observed. With the increase of mechanization within the sector and the presence of more people in the working areas, work accidents and occupational diseases have also increased. This situation has revealed the importance of occupational health and safety for textile. Although the employers in the textile sector try to ignore the cost of occupational health and safety as a surplus, the state department is doing some studies about this sector. In order to raise awareness of employers' obligations arising from training and labour legislation by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security Labour Inspection Board, "10 Responses to Occupational Health and Safety Precautions in the Textile Sector" is among the handbook series. There are other sources for the textile sector as well. This initiative of the state, in some parts of the textile sector, has created the logic of 'to prevent is cheaper than to pay'. Work accidents and occupational diseases can be prevented easily by 50% according to the researches, 48% can be prevented by systematic study and 2% cannot be prevented. Therefore, if sources of hazards can be identified in the workplace, the risks that may arise can be predicted and controlled. In this way, work accidents will be reduced and hazards can be removed. It is only possible to carry out this with a systematic risk assessment. In this study, HAZOP and 5x5 matrix method were used from the risk assessment methodologies. For the study, a firm was selected in Istanbul, which is a manufacturer of knitted fabrics from the textile sub-sectors. The existing hazards have been identified, the consequences of the hazards set forth, and the measures taken to ensure that there are existing mitigating and preventive controls. First, a few examples of hazards for HAZOP were identified from the table for the 5x5 matrix method, and risk assessments were made for the same hazards with the HAZOP study.