Engineering Risk Management / Thierry Meyer, Genserik Reniers.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Meyer, Thierry, author.
• Reniers, Genserik, author.

Series:

• De Gruyter Textbook

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• System failures--Prevention.
• Risk assessment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This revised 2nd edition of Engineering Risk Management presents engineering aspects of risk management. After an introduction to potential risks the authors presents management principles, risk diagnostics, analysis and treatments followed by examples of practical implementation in chemistry, physics and emerging technologies such as nanoparticles.

Contents:

• Frontmatter
• About the authors
• Contents
• 1. Risk management is not only a matter of financial risk
• 2. Introduction to engineering and managing risks
• 3. Risk management principles
• 4. Risk diagnostic and analysis
• 5. Risk treatment/reduction
• 6. Event analysis
• 7. Major industrial accidents and learning from accidents
• 8. Crisis management
• 9. Economic issues of safety
• 10. Risk governance
• 11. Examples of practical implementation of risk management
• 12. Concluding remarks
• Index

Notes:

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)

ISBN:

• 9783110418040
• 3110418045
• 9783110423556
• 3110423553

OCLC:

948878952