Risk Assessment, 2nd Edition

Preface

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”

Albert Einstein < http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9810.Albert_Einstein >

With the many titles of books on risk assessment that have been written, Fred Manuele recognized that there was a need for a fundamental guide for assessing operational risk. As a member of the Advisory Board to the Safety Sciences Program at the University of Central Missouri (UCM), Mr. Manuele challenged Dr. Georgi Popov at UCM, Bruce Lyon and Bruce Hollcroft who previously worked for Manuele to write such a text. Dr. Popov teaches occupational risk assessment, and like Lyon and Hollcroft, performs numerous risk assessments, simple to complex, for a wide range of industries. The challenge was accepted.

This second edition of Risk Assessment: A Practical Guide to Assessing Operational Risks provides the fundamentals on risk assessment, with many practical applications, for undergraduate and graduate students and employed safety, health, and environmental professionals who recognize that they are expected to have risk assessment capabilities.

This book fills a void. In recent years, risk assessment has been given more prominence as an element in operational risk management systems. This text serves the needs of professors at a university level who recognize that their students have knowledge and capability with respect to risk assessment, while addressing seven of the ABET criteria for safety programs. In addition, ...