HSEP 5.1a1, Rev.

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HSE Severity Table
Actual or
Economic/
Potential
Injury / illness Environment Reputation material/
Severity
production
Level

Serious off-site International media

Fatality or total USD$
5 impact, significant coverage; regulatory
permanent disability > 3 million
remediation required sanction

Partial disability; life Significant off-site National media

USD$
4 changing; intensive impact, some coverage; regulatory
300k-3mill
care remediation required action

Release significantly
State media
Urgent treatment; above reportable USD$
3 coverage;
surgery limit or some local 30k-300k
Prohibition Notice
impact

Medical treatment Release above Local media

USD$
2 to prevent reportable limit or coverage; citations/
3k-30 k
deterioration minor impact fines

Small release
Simple, immediate USD$
1 contained onsite and No media coverage
treatment <3k
no impact

Examples of High Potential Severity Incidents (WPS>3) include but are not limited to the
following:
 Fall from height, irrespective of injury outcome or if fall was suitably arrested
 Near miss incident involving interaction of heavy mobile equipment and light vehicles, where
sudden evasive movement was required to avoid collision
 Incident involving roll-over of mobile equipment or tip-over of a crane
 Lifting incident involving uncontrolled descent of a load
 Uncontrolled release of stored energy due to inadequate isolation procedures
 Incident involving rescue of personnel from a confined space or hazardous atmosphere
 Accidental contact with buried or hidden services
 Trench collapse
 Incident involving objects dropped from height into potentially occupied areas
 Incident involving contact or potential contact with >50 volts AC
 Exposure to toxic gases or hazardous substances greater than exposure limits

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03/19/14