Risk Assessment: Tools, Techniques, and Their Applications

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction to Risk Assessment

1.1 Terminology

1.2 Performing Risk Assessments

1.3 Risk Assessment Team

References

Chapter 2: Risk Perception

2.1 Knowledge Level

References

Chapter 3: Risks and Consequences

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Risk and Consequence

3.3 Credible Consequences

3.4 Summary

References

Chapter 4: Ecological Risk Assessment

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Deep Water Horizon

4.3 Love Canal

4.4 Minimata Methylmercury

4.5 Agent Orange

4.6 Seveso, Italy

4.7 Risk of Ecological Disasters

4.8 Ecological Risk Assessment

4.9 Summary

References

Chapter 5: Task Analysis Techniques

5.1 What Is Task Analysis?

5.2 Why A Task Analysis?

5.3 When To Use Task Analysis?

5.4 Task Analysis Process

References

Chapter 6: Preliminary Hazards Analysis

6.1 Description

6.2 Using Process Hazard for Procedure Design

6.3 Using PHA for Preliminary Product Design

6.4 Summary

References

Chapter 7: Primer on Probability and Statistics

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Probability Theory

7.3 Combining Probabilities

7.4 Conditional Probability

7.5 Probability Distributions

7.6 Using Probability

7.7 Summary

References

Chapter 8: Developing Probabilities

8.1 Risk Assessment Data

8.2 Overall Summary

References

Chapter 9: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Summary

References

Chapter 10: Human Reliability Analyses ...