As Low As Reasonably Practicable

ALARP is a concept that can be applied to any design activity. It is an acronym for "As Low As Reasonably Practicable". Arriving at ALARP stage requires a balancing act between extraction of safety benefits and the expenditure to derive them. Its not always easy to achieve ALARP and demonstrate achievement of it. Optimisation is the key word.In essence, how you spend minimum amount of money to obtain maximum safety benefits-actually underpins the concept of ALARP. When human life or environmental damage is at stake from the potential accidents from a designed facility - ALARP becomes super critical.Careful scrutiny of the design with respect to ALARP is required. Hence understanding the concepts of ALARP is of utmost important to designers, contractors as well as facility owners.