In the context of information, an ontology is a structured framework that defines the relationships between concepts within a particular domain, facilitating data sharing, organization, and retrieval.

Ontologies are domain specific, so if there are good WSH Ontologies, we should consider using them and amending them to suit our needs. Here are a few.

Ontologies

Ontology-based hazard knowledge representation and identification for deep refurbishment projects -

some notes about our context

Stuff I thought of reading through these:

we likely have different hazards for members than for maintenance, and possibly for long-time business members since chronic risks apply to them that wouldn't apply to short exposure members

Applicable ontologies

Interesting but not fully applicable

An Ontological Interpretation of Hazard for Safety-Critical Systems
- "a hazard is regarded as a situation where a system can play different roles, which means the system can not only lead to a hazard, but also is exposed to hazards."
- more relational than useful for us

Also

InvestigationOrganise(IO) by NASA - incident investigation but from 2004
from this
- Winther et al. (Winther & Marsh 2013) - hazard or state at the boundary of a system
- (Mazouni & Aubry 2007) - an ontology to support the methodology behind typical preliminary hazard analysis
- Functional hazard assessment (FHA) is a technique advocated in ARP4754 (ARP4754 1994)
- Leveson et al. (Leveson 2011) present a recent accident casualty model that provides a vision of hazards differently. Hazards are defined based on the system
- control theory, i.e., potential hazards are regarded as a situation when component failures, external disturbances, and/or potentially unsafe interactions among system components are not handled adequately or controlled.