Risk and safety in engineering processes / Ivan Lucic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lucic, Ivan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Railroad engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the treatment of safety risks in railways, analysing both heavy rail and metros. It is structured into eight chapters, and starts with the idea of risk and the history of the human perception of risk. Following on from that, utilising four real-life projects, an extensive review of existing risk analysis methodologies and processes is provided and summarised, including the relationships between different methodologies. Different Inquiry Systems (namely Leibnizian, Kantian, Hegelian, Lockean and Singerian) and the Delphi technique were utilised in this analysis of Safety Case

Contents:

""CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF FIGURES""; ""LIST OF TABLES""; ""FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""CHAPTER THREE""; ""CHAPTER FOUR""; ""CHAPTER FIVE""; ""CHAPTER SIX""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT""; ""APPENDIX A""; ""APPENDIX B""; ""REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY""

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 18, 2015).

ISBN:

1-4438-7520-1

OCLC:

903318546