Satisfying Safety Goals by Probabilistic Risk Assessment

• Main Author: Kumamoto, Hiromitsu (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2007.
• Series: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Business.; Management science.; Electrochemistry.; Computational intelligence.; Mechanical engineering.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Engineering, general.; Business and Management, general.; Computational Intelligence.; Mechanical Engineering.

Safety is one of the most important issues today. Recent international standards such as ISO and IEC have consistently advocated goal-based procedures of designing systems for better safety. The procedure assumes safety goals are explicitly established by international organizations, individual nati...

Table of Contents:

• Safety Goals and Risk-informed Decision Making
• Categorization by Safety Significance
• Realization of Category Requirements
• Hazard Identification and Risk Reduction
• Probabilistic Risk Assessment: PRA
• Basic Event Quantification
• System Event Quantification
• Dependent Failure Quantification
• Human-error Quantification.