Safety, Reliability and Risk Analysis

chapter |2 pages

Thematic areas: Accident and incident investigation

chapter |8 pages

A code for the simulation of human failure events in nuclear power plants: SIMPROC

chapter |8 pages

A preliminary analysis of the ‘Tlahuac’ incident by applying the MORT technique

chapter |8 pages

Comparing a multi-linear (STEP) and systemic (FRAM) method for accident analysis

chapter |6 pages

Development of a database for reporting and analysis of near misses in the Italian chemical industry

chapter |6 pages

Development of incident report analysis system based on m-SHEL ontology

chapter |6 pages

Forklifts overturn incidents and prevention in Taiwan

chapter |12 pages

Formal modelling of incidents and accidents as a means for enriching training material for satellite control operations

chapter |6 pages

Hazard factors analysis in regional traffic records

chapter |8 pages

Organizational analysis of availability: What are the lessons for a high risk industrial company?

chapter |6 pages

Thermal explosion analysis of methyl ethyl ketone peroxide by non-isothermal and isothermal calorimetry application

chapter |2 pages

Crisis and emergency management

chapter |4 pages

A mathematical model for risk analysis of disaster chains

chapter |6 pages

Effective learning from emergency responses

chapter |8 pages

On the constructive role of multi-criteria analysis in complex decision-making: An application in radiological emergency management

chapter |2 pages

Decision support systems and software tools for safety and reliability

chapter |6 pages

Complex, expert based multi-role assessment system for small and medium enterprises

chapter |8 pages

DETECT: A novel framework for the detection of attacks to critical infrastructures

chapter |8 pages

Methodology and software platform for multi-layer causal modeling

chapter |8 pages

SCAIS (Simulation Code System for Integrated Safety Assessment): Current status and applications

chapter |8 pages

Using GIS and multivariate analyses to visualize risk levels and spatial patterns of severe accidents in the energy sector

chapter |8 pages

Weak signals of potential accidents at ‘‘Seveso’’ establishments

chapter |2 pages

Dynamic reliability

chapter |8 pages

A dynamic fault classification scheme

chapter |8 pages

Importance factors in dynamic reliability

chapter |10 pages

TSD, a SCAIS suitable variant of the SDTPD

chapter |2 pages

Fault identification and diagnostics

chapter |8 pages

Application of a vapour compression chiller lumped model for fault detection

chapter |8 pages

Automatic source code analysis of failure modes causing error propagation

chapter |10 pages

Development of a prognostic tool to perform reliability analysis

chapter |4 pages

Fault detection and diagnosis in monitoring a hot dip galvanizing line using multivariate statistical process control

chapter |6 pages

Fault identification, diagnosis and compensation of flatness errors in hard turning of tool steels

chapter |8 pages

From diagnosis to prognosis: A maintenance experience for an electric locomotive

chapter |2 pages

Human factors

chapter |6 pages

A study on the validity of R-TACOM measure by comparing operator response time data

chapter |6 pages

An evaluation of the Enhanced Bayesian THERP method using simulator data

chapter |10 pages

Comparing CESA-Q human reliability analysis with evidence from simulator: A first attempt

chapter |6 pages

Exploratory and confirmatory analysis of the relationship between social norms and safety behavior

chapter |10 pages

Functional safety and layer of protection analysis with regard to human factors

chapter |8 pages

How employees’ use of information technology systems shape reliable operations of large scale technological systems

chapter |8 pages

Incorporating simulator evidence into HRA: Insights from the data analysis of the international HRA empirical study

chapter |6 pages

Insights from the ‘‘HRA international empirical study’’: How to link data and HRA with MERMOS

chapter |10 pages

Operators’ response time estimation for a critical task using the fuzzy logic theory

chapter |8 pages

The concept of organizational supportiveness

chapter |6 pages

The influence of personal variables on changes in driver behaviour

chapter |8 pages

The key role of expert judgment in CO2 underground storage projects

chapter |2 pages

Integrated risk management and risk—informed decision-making

chapter |8 pages

All-hazards risk framework—An architecture model

chapter |8 pages

Comparisons and discussion of different integrated risk approaches

chapter |10 pages

Management of risk caused by domino effect resulting from design system dysfunctions

chapter |10 pages

On some aspects related to the use of integrated risk analyses for the decision making process, including its use in the non-nuclear applications

chapter |10 pages

On the usage of weather derivatives in Austria—An empirical study

chapter |4 pages

Precaution in practice? The case of nanomaterial industry

chapter |4 pages

Risk based maintenance prioritisation

chapter |10 pages

Shifts in environmental health risk governance: An analytical framework

chapter |10 pages

What does ‘‘safety margin’’ really mean?

chapter |2 pages

Legislative dimensions of risk management

chapter |8 pages

Accidents, risk analysis and safety management—Different perspective at a Swedish safety authority

chapter |8 pages

Evaluation of risk and safety issues at the Swedish Rescue Services Agency

chapter |8 pages

Regulation of information security and the impact on top management commitment— A comparative study of the electric power supply sector and the finance sector

chapter |6 pages

The unintended consequences of risk regulation

chapter |2 pages

Maintenance modelling and optimisation

chapter |8 pages

A hybrid age-based maintenance policy for heterogeneous items

chapter |10 pages

A stochastic process model for computing the cost of a condition-based maintenance plan

chapter |8 pages

A study about influence of uncertain distribution inputs in maintenance optimization

chapter |6 pages

Aging processes as a primary aspect of predicting reliability and life of aeronautical hardware

chapter |8 pages

An alternative imperfect preventive maintenance model

chapter |6 pages

An imperfect preventive maintenance model with dependent failure modes

chapter |8 pages

Condition-based maintenance approaches for deteriorating system influenced by environmental conditions

chapter |6 pages

Condition-based maintenance by particle filtering

chapter |6 pages

Corrective maintenance for aging air conditioning systems

chapter |8 pages

Exact reliability quantification of highly reliable systems with maintenance

chapter |8 pages

Genetic algorithm optimization of preventive maintenance scheduling for repairable systems modeled by generalized renewal process

chapter |10 pages

Maintenance modelling integrating human and material resources

chapter |8 pages

Modelling competing risks and opportunistic maintenance with expert judgement

chapter |8 pages

Modelling different types of failure and residual life estimation for condition-based maintenance

chapter |10 pages

Multi-component systems modeling for quantifying complex maintenance strategies

chapter |10 pages

Multiobjective optimization of redundancy allocation in systems with imperfect repairs via ant colony and discrete event simulation

chapter |8 pages

Non-homogeneous Markov reward model for aging multi-state system under corrective maintenance

chapter |8 pages

On the modeling of ageing using Weibull models: Case studies

chapter |8 pages

On-line condition-based maintenance for systems with several modes of degradation

chapter |6 pages

Opportunity-based age replacement for a system under two types of failures

chapter |6 pages

Optimal inspection intervals for maintainable equipment

chapter |6 pages

Optimal periodic inspection of series systems with revealed and unrevealed failures

chapter |10 pages

Optimal periodic inspection/replacement policy for deteriorating systems with explanatory variables

chapter |8 pages

Optimal replacement policy for components with general failure rates submitted to obsolescence

chapter |8 pages

Optimization of the maintenance function at a company

chapter |8 pages

Planning and scheduling maintenance resources in a complex system

chapter |8 pages

Preventive maintenance planning using prior expert knowledge and multicriteria method PROMETHEE III

chapter |6 pages

Profitability assessment of outsourcing maintenance from the producer (big rotary machine study)

chapter |8 pages

Simulated annealing method for the selective maintenance optimization of multi-mission series-parallel systems

chapter |10 pages

Study on the availability of a k-out-of-N System given limited spares under (m, Ng) maintenance policy

chapter |10 pages

System value trajectories, maintenance, and its present value

chapter |6 pages

The maintenance management framework: A practical view to maintenance management

chapter |10 pages

Workplace occupation and equipment availability and utilization, in the context of maintenance float systems

chapter |2 pages

Monte Carlo in system safety and reliability

chapter |10 pages

Availability and reliability assessment of industrial complex systems: A practical view applied on a bioethanol plant simulation

chapter |6 pages

Handling dependencies between variables with imprecise probabilistic models

chapter |6 pages

Monte Carlo simulation for investigating the influence of maintenance strategies on the production availability of offshore installations

chapter |16 pages

Reliability analysis of discrete multi-state systems by means of subset simulation

chapter |2 pages

Occupational safety

chapter |6 pages

Application of virtual reality technologies to improve occupational & industrial safety in industrial processes

chapter |6 pages

Applying the resilience concept in practice: A case study from the oil and gas industry

chapter |10 pages

Development of an assessment tool to facilitate OHS management based upon the safe place, safe person, safe systems framework

chapter |8 pages

Exploring knowledge translation in occupational health using the mental models approach: A case study of machine shops

chapter |4 pages

Mathematical modelling of risk factors concerning work-related traffic accidents

chapter |6 pages

New performance indicators for the health and safety domain: A benchmarking use perspective

chapter |10 pages

Occupational risk management for fall from height

chapter |10 pages

Occupational risk management for vapour/gas explosions

chapter |10 pages

Occupational risk of an aluminium industry

chapter |8 pages

Risk regulation bureaucracies in EU accession states: Drinking water safety in Estonia

chapter |8 pages

Can organisational learning improve safety and resilience during changes?

chapter |8 pages

Consequence analysis as organizational development

chapter |8 pages

Integrated operations and leadership—How virtual cooperation influences leadership practice

chapter |10 pages

Outsourcing maintenance in services providers

chapter |8 pages

Revising rules and reviving knowledge in the Norwegian railway system

chapter |6 pages

Risk Management in systems: Learning to recognize and respond to weak signals

chapter |10 pages

Author index

chapter |2 pages

Volume 2

chapter |24 pages

Table of contents

chapter |2 pages

Preface

chapter |4 pages

Evaluation methodology of industry equipment functional reliability

chapter |2 pages

Acknowledgments

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter |2 pages

Evaluation of device reliability based on accelerated tests

chapter |6 pages

A new step-stress Accelerated Life Testing approach: Step-Down-Stress

chapter |6 pages

Application of a generalized lognormal distribution to engineering data fitting

chapter |6 pages

Collection and analysis of reliability data over the whole product lifetime of vehicles

chapter |10 pages

Life test applied to Brazilian friction-resistant low alloy-high strength steel rails

chapter |8 pages

Evaluation methodology of industry equipment functional reliability

chapter |6 pages

Evaluation of device reliability based on acceperated tests

chapter |8 pages

Evaluation, analysis and synthesis of multiple source information: An application to nuclear computer codes

chapter |6 pages

Improving reliability using new processes and methods

chapter |10 pages

Life test applied to Brazilian friction-resistant low alloy-high strength steel rails

chapter |12 pages

Non-homogeneous Poisson Process (NHPP), stochastic model applied to evaluate the economic impact of the failure in the Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA)

chapter |8 pages

Risk trends, indicators and learning rates: A new case study of North sea oil and gas

chapter |6 pages

Robust estimation for an imperfect test and repair model using Gaussian mixtures

chapter |2 pages

The measurement and management of Deca-BDE—Why the continued certainty of uncertainty?

chapter |8 pages

Environmental reliability as a requirement for defining environmental impact limits in critical areas

chapter |8 pages

Hazardous aid? The crowding-out effect of international charity

chapter |8 pages

Individual risk-taking and external effects-An empirical examination

chapter |6 pages

Licensing a Biofuel plan transforming animal fats

chapter |6 pages

Modelling incident escalation in explosives storage

chapter |6 pages

The measurement and management of Deca-BDE-Why the continued certainty of uncertainty?

chapter |2 pages

Risk and hazard analysis

chapter |8 pages

A contribution to accelerated testing implementation

chapter |10 pages

A decomposition method to analyze complex fault trees

chapter |8 pages

A quantitative methodology for risk assessment of explosive atmospheres according to the ATEX directive

chapter |8 pages

A risk theory based on hyperbolic parallel curves and risk assessment in time

chapter |6 pages

Applying optimization criteria to risk analysis

chapter |8 pages

Added value in fault tree analyses

chapter |6 pages

Alarm prioritization at plant design stage-A simplified approach

chapter |10 pages

Analysis of possibilities of timing dependencies modeling-Example of logistic support system

chapter |8 pages

Applications of supply process reliability model

chapter |8 pages

Applying optimization criteria to risk anaylsis

chapter |8 pages

Experimental study of jet fires

chapter |8 pages

Comparison of different methodologies to estimate the evacuation radius in the case of a toxic release

chapter |6 pages

Conceptualizing and managing risk networks. New insights for risk management

chapter |10 pages

Developments in fault tree techniques and importance measures

chapter |6 pages

Dutch registration of risk situations

chapter |6 pages

Experimental study of jet fires

chapter |10 pages

Failure mode and effect analysis algorithm for tunneling projects

chapter |6 pages

Risk analysis in extreme environmental conditions for Aconcagua Mountain station

chapter |6 pages

Geographic information system for evaluation of technical condition and residual life of pipelines

chapter |10 pages

Inherent safety indices for the design of layout plans

chapter |8 pages

Minmax defense for multi-state systems

chapter |8 pages

Multicriteria risk assessment for risk ranking of natural gas pipelines

chapter |8 pages

New insight into PFDavg and PFH

chapter |10 pages

On causes and dependencies of errors in human and organizational barriers against major accidents

chapter |8 pages

Quantitative risk analysis method for warehouses with packaged hazardous materials

chapter |8 pages

Ranking the attractiveness of industrial plants to external acts of interference

chapter |10 pages

Review and discussion of uncertainty taxonomies used in risk analysis

chapter |6 pages

Risk analysis in the frame of the ATEX Directive and the preparation of an Explosing Protection Document

chapter |8 pages

Risk reduction by use of a buffer zone

chapter |8 pages

Safety in engineering practice

chapter |10 pages

Why ISO 13702 and NFPA 15 standards may lead to unsafe design

chapter |2 pages

Risk control in complex environments

chapter |8 pages

Is there an optimal type for high reliability organization? A study of the UK offshore industry

chapter |8 pages

The optimization of system safety: Rationality, insurance and optimal protection

chapter |6 pages

Thermal characteristic analysis of Y type zeolite by differential scanning calorimetry

chapter |8 pages

Using network methodology to define emergency response team location: The Brazilian refinery case study

chapter |2 pages

Risk perception and communication

chapter |10 pages

(Mis-)conceptions of safety principles

chapter |8 pages

Climate change in the British press: The role of the visual

chapter |8 pages

Do the people exposed to a technological risk always want more information about it? Some observations on cases of rejection

chapter |8 pages

Media coverage, imaginary of risks and technological organizations

chapter |8 pages

Media disaster coverage over time: Methodological issues and results

chapter |10 pages

Risk amplification and zoonosis

chapter |6 pages

Risk communcation and addressing uncertainties in risk assessments-Presentation of a framework

chapter |10 pages

Risk communcation for industrial plants and radioactive waste respositories

chapter |6 pages

Risk management measuremnt methodology: Practical proceducres and approaches for risk assessment and prediction

chapter |8 pages

Risk perception and cultural theory: Criticism and methodological orientation

chapter |6 pages

Standing in the shoes of hazard managers: An experiment on avalanche risk perception

chapter |4 pages

The social perception of nuclear fusion: Investigating lay understanding and reasoning about the technology

chapter |2 pages

Safety culture

chapter |8 pages

Leadership and safety climate in the construction industry

chapter |10 pages

Does change challenge safety? Complexity in the civil aviation transport system

chapter |6 pages

Electromagnetic fields in the industrial environment

chapter |6 pages

Electrostatic charges in industrial environments

chapter |8 pages

Empowering operations and maintenance: Safe operations with the "one directed team" organizational model at the Kristin asset

chapter |8 pages

Leadership and safety climate in the construction industry

chapter |8 pages

Local management and its impact on safety culture and safety within Norwegian shipping

chapter |8 pages

Quantitative analysis of the anatomy and effectiveness of occupational safety culture

chapter |8 pages

Safety management and safety culture assessment in Germany

chapter |6 pages

The potential for error in communcations between engineering designers

chapter |2 pages

Safety management systems

chapter |8 pages

Designing the safety policy of IT system on the example of a chosen company

chapter |10 pages

Determining and verifying the safety integrity level of the control and protection systems under uncertainty

chapter |8 pages

Drawing up and running a Security Plan in an SME type company-An eaasy task?

chapter |8 pages

ERTMS, deals on wheels? An inquiry into a major railway project

chapter |6 pages

Production assurance and reliability management-A new international standard

chapter |8 pages

Risk management model for industrial plants maintenance

chapter |8 pages

Some safety aspects on multi-agent and CBTC implementation for subway control systems

chapter |2 pages

Software reliability

chapter |6 pages

Assessment of software reliability and the efficiency of corrective actions during the software development process

chapter |6 pages

ERTMS, deals on wheels? An inquiry into major railway project

chapter |8 pages

Guaranteed resource availability in a website

chapter |6 pages

Reliability oriented electronic design automation tool

chapter |8 pages

Building resilience to natural hazards. Practices and policies on governance and mitigation in the central region of Portugal

chapter |8 pages

SysML aided functional safety assessment

chapter |10 pages

UML saftey requriement specification and verification

chapter |2 pages

Stakeholder and public involvement in risk governance

chapter |10 pages

Assessment and monitoring of reliability and robustness of offshore wind energy convverters

chapter |8 pages

Building resilience to natural hazards. Practices and policies on governance and mitigation in the central region of Portugal

chapter |10 pages

Governance of flood risks in The Netherlands: Interdisciplinary research into the role and meaning of risk perception

chapter |6 pages

Public intervnetion for better governance-Does it matter? A study of the "Leros Strength" case

chapter |8 pages

Reasoning about safety management policy in everyday terms

chapter |10 pages

Using stakeholders' expertise in EMF and soil contamination to improve the management of public policies dealing with modern risk: When uncertainty is on the agenda

chapter |2 pages

Structural reliability and design codes

chapter |8 pages

Adaptive discretization of 1D homogeneous random fields

chapter |6 pages

Comparision of methods for estimation of concrete strength

chapter |6 pages

Design of structures for accidental design situations

chapter |10 pages

Developing fragility funcion for a timber structure subjected to fire

chapter |4 pages

Estimations in the random fatigue-limit model

chapter |8 pages

Limitations of the Weibull distribution related to predicting the probability of failure initiated by flaws

chapter |8 pages

Simulation techniques of non-gaussian random loadings in structural reliability analysis

chapter |6 pages

Special features of the collection and analysis of snow loads

chapter |8 pages

Structural safety under extreme construction loads

chapter |10 pages

The modeling of time-dependent reliability of deteriorating structures

chapter |10 pages

Author index

chapter |2 pages

Volume 3

chapter |24 pages

Table of contents

chapter |2 pages

Preface

chapter |4 pages

Application of the fault tree analysis for assessment of the power system reliability

chapter |2 pages

Acknowledgments

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter |2 pages

BDMP (Boolean logic driven Markov processes) as an alternative to event trees

chapter |10 pages

A copula-based approach for dependability analyses of fault-tolerant systems with interdependent basic events

chapter |8 pages

A depth first search algorithm for optimal arrangements in a circular consecutive-k-out-of-n:F system

chapter |8 pages

A joint reliability-redundancy optimization approach for multi-state series-parallel systems

chapter |8 pages

A new approach to assess the reliability of a multi-state system with dependent components

chapter |8 pages

A reliability analysis and decision making process for autonomous systems

chapter |8 pages

Advanced discrete event simulation methods with application to importance measure estimation

chapter |8 pages

Algorithmic and computational analysis of a multi-component complex system

chapter |8 pages

An efficient reliability computation of generalized multi-state k-out-of-n systems

chapter |8 pages

First-passage time analysis for Markovian deteriorating model

chapter |8 pages

BDMP (Boolean logic driven Markov processes) as an alternative to event trees

chapter |8 pages

Bivariate distribution based passive system performance assessment

chapter |8 pages

Calculating steady state reliability indices of multi-state systems using dual number algebra

chapter |4 pages

Concordance analysis of importance measure

chapter |6 pages

Contribution to availability assessment of systems with one shot items

chapter |6 pages

Contribution to modeling of complex weapon systems reliability

chapter |10 pages

Delayed system reliability and uncertainty analysis

chapter |10 pages

Efficient generation and representation of failure lists out of an information flux model for modeling safety critical systems

chapter |8 pages

Evaluating algorithms for the system state distribution of multi-state k-out-of-n:F system

chapter |4 pages

First-passage time analysis for Markovian deteriorating model

chapter |10 pages

Model of logistic support system with time dependency

chapter |6 pages

Modeling failure cascades in network systems due to distributed random disturbances

chapter |6 pages

Modeling of the changes of graphite bore in RBMK-1500 type nuclear reactor

chapter |8 pages

Reliability evaluation of III-V Concentrator solar cells

chapter |10 pages

Modelling test strategies effects on the probability of failure on demand for safety instrumented systems

chapter |10 pages

New insight into measures of component importance in production systems

chapter |8 pages

New virtual age models for bathtub shaped failure intensities

chapter |6 pages

On some approaches to defining virtual age of non-repairable objects

chapter |4 pages

On the application and extension of system signatures in engineering reliability

chapter |10 pages

PFD of higher-order configurations of SIS with partial stroke testing capability

chapter |8 pages

Power quality as accomanying factor in reliability research of electric engines

chapter |6 pages

RAMS and performance analysis

chapter |6 pages

Reliability evaluation of complex system based on equivalent fault tree

chapter |6 pages

Reliability evaluation of III-V Concentrator solar cells

chapter |6 pages

Reliability of a degrading system under inspections

chapter |8 pages

Reliability prediction using petri nets for on-demand safety systems with fault detection

chapter |16 pages

Reliability, availability and cost analysis of large multi-state systems with ageing components

chapter |10 pages

Weaknesses of classic availability calculations for interlinked production systems and their overcoming

chapter |8 pages

Representation and estimation of multi-state system reliability by decision diagrams

chapter |10 pages

Safety instrumented system reliability evaluation with influencing factors

chapter |8 pages

Smooth estimation of the availability function of a repairable system

chapter |8 pages

System design optimisation involving phased missions

chapter |8 pages

The Natvig measures of component importance in repairable systems applied to an offshore oil and gas production system

chapter |8 pages

The operation quality assessment as an initial part of reliability improvement and low cost automation of the system

chapter 3|6 pages

state modelling of dependent component failures with domino effects

chapter |10 pages

Variable ordering techniques for the application of Binary Decision Diagrams on PSA linked Fault Tree models

chapter |8 pages

Weaknesses of classic availability calculations for interlinked production systems and their overcoming

chapter |2 pages

Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis

chapter |10 pages

A critique of Info-Gap's robustness model

chapter |12 pages

Types and sources of uncertainties in environmental accidental risk assessment: A case study for a chemical factory in the Alpine region of Slovenia

chapter |8 pages

Dependence modelling with copula in probabilistic studies, a practical approach based on numerical experiments

chapter |6 pages

Even tree uncertainty analysis by Monte Carlo and possibility theory

chapter |10 pages

Global sensitivity analysis based on entropy

chapter |8 pages

Impact of uncertainty affecting reilability modeling on warranty contracts

chapter |10 pages

Influence of epistemic uncertainties on the probabilistic assessment of an emergency operating procedure in a nuclear power plant

chapter |8 pages

Numerical study of algorithms for metamodel construction and validation

chapter |8 pages

On the variance upper bound theorem and its applications

chapter |6 pages

Reliability assessment under Uncertainty Using Dempster-Shafer and Vague Set Theories

chapter |10 pages

Types and sources of uncertainties in environmental accidental risk assessment: A case study for a chemical factory in the Alpine region of Slovenia

chapter |6 pages

Uncertainty estimation for monotone and binary systems

chapter |2 pages

Industrial and service sectors: Aeronautics and aerospace

chapter |10 pages

Stochastic modeling and prediction of catalytic converters degradation

chapter |6 pages

Is optimized design of satellites possible?

chapter |8 pages

Model of air traffic in terminal area for ATFM safety analysis

chapter |8 pages

Predicting airport runway conditions based on weather data

chapter |10 pages

Safety considerations in complex airborne systems

chapter |6 pages

The Preliminary Risk Analysis approach: Merging space and aeronautics methods

chapter |8 pages

Using a Causal model for Air Transport Safety (CATS) for the evaluation of alternatives

chapter |2 pages

Automotive engineering

chapter |6 pages

An approach to describe interaction in and between mechatronic systems

chapter |6 pages

Influence of the mileage distribution on reliability prognosis models

chapter |6 pages

Reliability prediction for automotive components using Real-Parameter Genetic Algorithm

chapter |8 pages

Stochastic modeling and prediction of catalytic converters degradation

chapter |8 pages

Towards a better interaction between design and dependability analysis: FMEA derived from UML/SysML models

chapter |2 pages

Biotechnology and food industry

chapter |6 pages

Accidental scenarios in the loss of control of chemical processes: Screening the impact profile of secondary substances

chapter |10 pages

Assessment of the risk to company revenue due to deviations in honey quality

chapter |4 pages

Attitudes of Japanese and Hawaiian toward labeling genetically modified fruits

chapter |6 pages

Ensuring honey quality by means o effective pasturization

chapter |10 pages

Exposure assessment model to combine thermal inactivation (log reduction) and thermal injury (heat-treated spore lag time) effects on non-proteolytic: Clostridium botulinum

chapter |6 pages

Public information requirements on health risk of mercury in fish (1): Perception and knowledge of the public about food safety and the risk of mercury

chapter |6 pages

Public information requirements on health risks of mercury in fish (2): A comparison of mental models of experts and public in Japan

chapter |8 pages

Review of diffusion models for the social amplification of risk of food-borne zoonoses

chapter |8 pages

Risk perception and communication of food safety and food technologies in Flanders, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom

chapter |10 pages

Reliability study of shutdown process through the analysis of decision making in chemical plants. Case of study: South America, Spain and Portugal

chapter |2 pages

Chemical process industry

chapter |8 pages

Accidental scenarios in the loss of control of chemical processes: Screening the impact profile of secondary substances

chapter |10 pages

Adapting the EU Seveso II Directive for GHS: Initial UK study on acute toxicity to people

chapter |6 pages

An advanced model for spreading and evaporation of accidentally released hazardous liquids on land

chapter |10 pages

Influence of saftety systems on land use planning around seveso sites: example of measures chosen for a fertiliser company located close to a village

chapter |10 pages

Performance evaluation of manufacturing systems based on dependability management indicators-case study: Chemical industry

chapter |8 pages

Protection of chemical industrial installations from intentional adversary acts: Comparison of the new security challenges with the existing safety practices in Europe

chapter |8 pages

Quantitative assessment of domino effect in an extended industrial area

chapter |4 pages

Reaction hazard of cumene hydroperoxide with sodium hydroxide by isothermal calorimetry

chapter |6 pages

Reliability study of shutdown process through the analysis of decision making in chemical plants. Case of study: Soth America, Spain and Portugal

chapter |6 pages

Study of the application of risk management practices in shutdown chemical process

chapter 30|8 pages

years after the first HAZOP guideline publication. Considerations

chapter |2 pages

Civil engineering

chapter |10 pages

Decision tools for risk management support in construction industry

chapter |6 pages

Definition of safety and the existence of "optimal safety"

chapter |6 pages

Failure risk analysis in Water Supply Networks

chapter |10 pages

Hurricane vulnerability of multi-story residential buidings in Florida

chapter |10 pages

Risk management system in water-pipe network functioning

chapter |16 pages

Use of extreme value theory in engineering design

chapter |2 pages

Critical infrastructures

chapter |10 pages

A model for vulnerability analysis of interdependent infrastructure networks

chapter |10 pages

Exploiting stochastic indicators of interdependent infrastructures: The service availability of interconnected networks

chapter |8 pages

Proactive risk assessment of critical infrastructures

chapter |12 pages

Seismic assessment of utility systems: Application to water, electric power and transportation networks

chapter |10 pages

Author index

chapter |2 pages

Volume 4

chapter |24 pages

The estimation of health effect risks based on different sampling intervals of meteorological data

chapter |2 pages

Preface

chapter |4 pages

Organization

chapter |2 pages

Information security measures influencing user performance

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter |2 pages

Electrical and electronic engineering

chapter |8 pages

Balancing safety and availability for an electronic protection system

chapter |10 pages

Evaluation of important reliability parameters using VHDL-RTL modelling and information flow approach

chapter |2 pages

Energy production and distribution

chapter |8 pages

Application of Bayesian networks for risk assessment in electricity distribution system maintenance management

chapter |6 pages

Incorporation of ageing effects into reliability model for power transmission network

chapter |6 pages

Mathematical simulation of energy supply disturbances

chapter |6 pages

Risk analysis of the electric power transmission grid

chapter |6 pages

Security of gas supply to a gas plant from cave storage using discrete-event simulation

chapter |8 pages

SES RISK a new framework to support decisions on energy supply

chapter |6 pages

Specification of reliability benchmarks for offshore wind farms

chapter |2 pages

Health and medicine

chapter |10 pages

Bayesian statistical meta-analysis of epidemiological data for QRA

chapter |6 pages

The estimation of health effect risks based on different sampling intervals of meteorlogical data

chapter |2 pages

Information technology and telecommunications

chapter |8 pages

A bi-objective model for routing and wavelength assignment in resilient WDM networks

chapter |6 pages

A framework for the assessment of the industrial risk caused by floods

chapter |8 pages

Implementation of risk and reliability analysis techniques in ICT

chapter |8 pages

Information security measures influencing user performance

chapter |8 pages

Reliability network server assignment using an ant colony approach

chapter |8 pages

Risk and safety as system-theoretic concepts-A formal view on system-theory by means of petri-nets

chapter |2 pages

Insurance and finance

chapter |10 pages

Behaviouristic approaches to insurance decisions in the context of natural hazards

chapter |4 pages

Gaming tool as a method of natural disaster risk education: Educating the relationship between risk and insurance

chapter |10 pages

Reliability-based risk metric computation for energy trading

chapter |2 pages

Manufacturing

chapter |6 pages

A decision mdoel for preventing knock-on risk inside industrial plant

chapter |8 pages

Condition based maintenance optimization under cost and profit criteria for manfacturing equipment

chapter |10 pages

PRA-type study adapted to the multi-crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells manufacture process

chapter |2 pages

Mechanical engineering

chapter |8 pages

Developing a new methodology for OHS assessment in small and medium enterprises

chapter |8 pages

Optimal Pre-control as a tool to monitor the reliability of a manufacturing system

chapter |4 pages

The respirable crystalline silica in the ceramic industries-Sampling, exposure and toxicology

chapter |2 pages

Heat-up calculation to screen out the room cooling failure function from a PSA model

chapter |8 pages

A framework for the assessment of the industrial risk caused by floods

chapter |8 pages

A sample method of risk potential analysis for post-earthquake fires

chapter |8 pages

Applying the SDMS model to manage natural disasters in Mexico

chapter |8 pages

Decision making tools for natural hazard risk management-Examples from Switzerland

chapter |8 pages

How to motivate people to assume responsibility and act upon their own protection from flood risk in The Netherlands if they think they are perfectly safe?

chapter |8 pages

Integral risk management of natural hazards-A system analysis of operational application to rapid mass movements

chapter |10 pages

Risk based approach for a long-term solution of coastal flood defences-A Vietnam case

chapter |10 pages

River system behaviour effects on flood risk

chapter |8 pages

Valuation of flood risk in The Netherlands: Some preliminary results

chapter |2 pages

Nuclear engineering

chapter |10 pages

An approach to integrate thermal-hydraulic and probabilistic analyses in addressing safety margins estimation accounting for uncertainties

chapter |8 pages

Availablity of alternative sources for heat removal in case of failure of the RHRS during midloop conditions addressed in LPSA

chapter |6 pages

Complexity measures of emergency operating procedures: A comparison study with data from a simulated computerized procedure experiment

chapter |10 pages

Distinction impossible!: Comparing risks between Radioactive Wastes Facilities and Nuclear Power Stations

chapter |6 pages

Heat-up calculation to screen out the room cooling failure function from a PSA model

chapter |6 pages

Investigating the material limits on social construction: Practical reasoning about nuclear fusion and other technologies

chapter |10 pages

Preliminary probabilistic study for risk management associated to casing long-term integrity in the context of CO2 geological sequestration—Recommendations for cement plug geometry

chapter |8 pages

Probabilistic safety assessment for other modes than power operation

chapter |8 pages

Probabilistic safety margins: Definition and calculation

chapter |10 pages

Reliability assessment of the thermal hydraulic phenomena related to a CREAM-like passive RHR system

chapter |4 pages

Risk futures in Europe: Perspectives for future research and governance. Insights from a EU funded project

chapter |6 pages

Vital area identification using fire PRA and RI-ISI results in UCN 4 nuclear power plant

chapter |2 pages

Offshore oil and gas

chapter |8 pages

A new approach for follow-up of safety instrumented systems in the oil and gas industry

chapter |8 pages

Consequene based methodology to determine acceptable leadkage rate through closed safety critical valves

chapter |8 pages

FAMUS: Applying a new tool for integrating flow assurance and RAM analysis

chapter |10 pages