Risk Assessment: Theory, Methods, and Applications

Appendix B

AEMA	Action error mode analysis
AFR	Annual fatality rate
AIChE	American Institute of Chemical Engineers
ALARA	As low as reasonably achievable
ALARP	As low as reasonably practicable
API	American Petroleum Institute
ARAMIS	Accidental risk assessment methodology for industries in the framework of the Seveso II directive
ASME	American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ATHEANA	A technique for human error analysis
BDD	Binary decision diagram
BFR	Binomial failure rate
BOEMRE	Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement
BORA	Barrier and operational risk analysis
BPCS	Basic Process Control System
CAF	Cost of averting a fatality
CBA	Cost-benefit analysis
CCF	Common-cause failure
CCPS	Center for Chemical Process Safety
CDF	Core damage frequency
CM	Corrective maintenance
COCOM	Contextual control model
CPC	Common performance condition
CPT	Conditional probability table
CREAM	Cognitive reliability and error analysis method
DD	Dangerous detected (failure)
DoD	U.S. Department of Defense
DoE	U.S. Department of Energy
DPM	(Number of) deaths per million
DU	Dangerous undetected (failure)
EDF	Electricite de France
EFBA	Energy flow/barrier analysis
EFC	Error-forcing context
EMSA	European Maritime Safety Agency
EN	European norm (standard)
EOS	Emergency operations system
EPA	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPC	Error-producing condition
EPRI	Electric Power Research Institute
EPSC	European Process ...