ALARP is an acronym for "as low as reasonably practicable

 

ALARP is an acronym for "as low as reasonably practicable". It's a principle used in risk management, particularly in health and safety, to reduce risk to a level that's as low as possible while considering the cost and effort required to do so. 

The ALARP principle states that risk reduction measures should reduce risk to a level where the cost and effort required to reduce it further would be disproportionate to the additional risk reduction achieved. 

Here are some examples of ALARP in practice:

Occupational hygiene: Keeping exposures to chemicals as low as possible

Machinery guarding: Protecting against access to dangerous parts of a machine