The Risk Management of Safety and Dependability
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About the author
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1 Ever-present danger: an introduction to the principles of risk management
Chapter 2 Ignorance is no defence: legislation and the corporate role in managing risk
Chapter 3 How to recognise hazards: learning about generic industrial hazards
Chapter 4 Human factors in risk management: understanding why humans fail and are unreliable
Chapter 5 Exposing hazards: techniques to fi nd possible risks of unacceptable failures in procedures, machines and systems
Chapter 6 Safe enough? Methods and procedures for evaluating and reducing risk in the design of processes, plant and machinery
Chapter 7 Inherently unsafe: safety issues in planning a new facility
Chapter 8 Product risk: managing risk in the design and development process
Chapter 9 Asset integrity: learning about the cause and symptoms of age and decay and the need for maintenance to avoid catastrophic failures
Chapter 10 Coping with risk: how to ensure the health and safety of people at work
Chapter 11 Management disasters: the lessons to be learnt from three major disasters
Appendix 1 List of abbreviations and acronyms
Appendix 2 Bibliography
Appendix 3 Directory of bodies associated with risk management and safety
Index
