QRA: Quantified Risk Assessment
		Qualifying Disclosure: A disclosure made to a specified person or body which a worker reasonably believes tends to show: that a criminal offence has been committed; a failure to comply with a legal obligation has occurred; a danger to health and safety exists; damage to the environment; or a miscarriage of justice has taken place etc.
		Qualitative Measures: Performance measures that are descriptions of situations or conditions which cannot be recorded numerically.
		Quality: Conformance to specification.
		Quantified Risk Assessment: Process of assignment risk to an event using numerical and probabilistic data. Often applied to large scale industrial operations which present major hazards.
		Quantitative Measures: Performance measures that are described in terms of numbers, eg on a scale. The number of lost time accidents.
		Quantum of Risk: The amount of risk, comprising qualitative and quantitative elements, based upon a number of factors such as probability or chance of an event occurring; the number of occasions a person is exposed to the hazard; the number of people affected by a single event; and the maximum probable loss likely to be experienced (among others).

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