Satisfying Safety Goals by Probabilistic Risk Assessment

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kumamoto, Hiromitsu
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Springer London 2007, 2007
Edition:1st ed. 2007
Series:Springer Series in Reliability Engineering
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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