"This paper examines the current practices employed in many parts of the world for managing risks and settingsafetypriorities and outlines the development of a model which will satisfy both the technical and sociological requirements for determining valid safety priorities. Various methods used for settingsafetypriorities were examined and broken down into the respective variables which form part of their assessmentIt was observed that each documented method used different combinations of variables and many used completely different variables all together. From this information grew the realisation that if a variable is important and valid, surely it should be used in every determination of settingsafetypriorities.The variables necessary to form a methodical assessment of safetypriority were found to fall into two broad categories, these being: — Risk Assessment Variables — Priority Modification Variables. A model was then developed to incorporate the necessary variables for a complete assessment of safetypriority.

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