ABSTRACT
The findings of a study of maintenance management at hazardous plant are used to illustrate the inter-relationships between management elements. The significance of these complicated interactions for incorporating managerial and organisational factors into Quantified Risk Assessment (QRA) is considered and potential problems highlighted. The potential for risk analysis to play a more active role in ongoing safety management is also explored; it is suggested that the adoption of a hierarchy of robust, safety related, Performance Indicators matched to the hierarchy of managerial responsibility and identified via risk analysis might allow plant managers to exercise more pro-active control of plant safety.
