Probabilistic safety assessment and management : proceedings of the International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM) held February 4-7, 1991, in Beverly Hills, California

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Probabilistic safety assessment and management : proceedings of the International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM) held February 4-7, 1991, in Beverly Hills, California

editor, George Apostolakis ; sponsored by the Society for Risk Assessment ; cosponsored by the American Nuclear Society ... [et al.] ; sponsoring organizations, A.D. Little, Inc. ... [et al.]

Elsevier, c1991

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  • v. 1
  • v. 2

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Regulatory uses of PSA. Systems-structures interaction. Methods for assessing organization effectiveness with respect to safety. PSA use in various industries. Non-power reactor PSA applications. PSA applications. Safety management in the aerospace industry. Risk-based industrial standards: development, damage calculations, and applications. Methods for assessing organizational effectiveness with respect to safety. Chemical plant risk management. Industrial PSA application. Use of PSA in radioactive waste regulation. European applications of chemical plant probabilistic safety assessment and management. Vulnerability assessment for defence applications. Human factors in the process industries. Modelling of fire events and responses. Applications of health risk assessment methods. Use of PSA in waste regulation. Risk management in US DOE facilities. Software system safety. PSA use in the process industries. Scenario identification and structuring in PSA. Space shuttle main propulsion system risk assessment. PSA and toxic substances. Deterministic and probabilistic models for system/process assessment and management. Quantitative assessment of software reliability and safety. Human reliability: individual and organization. Risk and reliability assessment for dynamic systems. Defence and security PSA applications. Risk-based regulation and the law.

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