Risk assessment : tools, techniques, and their applications / Lee T. Ostrom, Cheryl A. Wilhelmsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilhelmsen, Cheryl A., 1953- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Risk assessment--Statistical methods.

Risk assessment.

System failures (Engineering)--Prevention.

System failures (Engineering).

System safety.

Probabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (586 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, c2019.

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2019]

Summary:

"Since the first edition of our book was published there have been several changes in the types of risk individuals, businesses, and governments are being exposed to. Cyber-attacks are more frequent and costly and lone-wolf style terrorist attacks are more common; events not addressed in the first edition. The book continues to provide a resource that leads the reader through a risk assessment and shows them the proper tools to be used at the various steps in the process. This book also provides students studying safety and risk assessment a resource that assists them in understanding the various risk assessment tools. The book provides readers with a toolbox of techniques that can be used to aid them in analyzing conceptual designs, completed designs, procedures and operational risk. On top of the ten new chapters the new edition also includes expanded case studies and real life examples; coverage on risk assessment software like SAPPHIRE and RAVEN; and end-of-chapter questions for students with a solutions manual for academic adopters. The approach to the book remains the same and is analogous to a toolkit. The user locates the tool that best fits the risk assessment task they are performing. The chapters of the book progress from the concept of risk, through the simple risk assessment techniques, and into the more complex techniques. In addition to discussing the techniques, this book presents them in a form that the readers can readily adapt to their particular situation. Each chapter, where applicable, presents the technique discussed in that chapter and demonstrates how it is used"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-119-48341-7

1-5231-2848-8

1-119-48337-9

1-119-48334-4

OCLC:

1107989594