Since the introduction of The Product Liability Law, effective since July 2002, more and more companies and end-users are giving their attention to the safety of products. A number of existing risk analysis techniques are being implemented to manufacturing sites. However, they obtain certain restrictions such as incurring different techniques that are to be implemented at each stage of the product development. This is due to their domain of the analysis differing from one to another. Moreover, the results of these analyses are not specific enough, and are subject to further revision.
This study proceeds to look at various examinations undertaken on the existing risk analysis techniques. Through implementing them on certain products, investigations on the strengths and weaknesses were ascertained. This has allowed improvements on the existing techniques to be achieved as well as the development of a new risk analysis technique, `HORA (Human Oriented Risk Analysis).` Finally the new technique has been implemented on products to confirm its effectiveness.
