Risk assessment : tools, techniques, and their applications

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors Ostrom, Lee T. (Author), Wilhelmsen, Cheryl A., 1953- (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Hoboken, NJ, USA : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019.
EditionSecond edition.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781119483373
1119483379
9781119483342
1119483344
9781119483410
1119483417
9781119483465
1119483468
Physical Description1 online resource

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to risk assessment
  • Risk perception
  • Risks and consequences
  • Ecological risk assessment
  • Task analysis techniques
  • Preliminary hazard analysis
  • Primer on probability and statistics
  • Mathematical tools for updating probabilities
  • Developing probabilities
  • Quantifying the unquantifiable
  • Failure mode and effects analysis
  • Human reliability analyses
  • Critical incident technique
  • Basic fault tree analysis technique
  • Critical function analysis
  • Event tree and decision tree analysis
  • Probabilistic risk assessment
  • Probabilistic risk assessment software
  • Qualitative and quantitative research methods used in risk assessment
  • Risk of an epidemic
  • Vulnerability analysis technique
  • Developing risk model for aviation inspection and maintenance tasks
  • Risk assessment and community planning
  • Threat assessment
  • Project risk management
  • Enterprise risk management overview
  • Process safety management and hazard and operability assessment
  • Emerging risks
  • Process plant risk assessment example
  • Risk assessment framework for detecting, predicting, and mitigating aircraft material
  • Inspection: a case study
  • Traffic risks
  • Acronyms.