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Risk Assessment: Tools, Techniques, and Their Applications
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Risk Assessment: Tools, Techniques, and Their Applications

by Lee T. Ostrom, Cheryl Wilhelmsen
July 2012
Beginner content levelBeginner
416 pages
9h 21m
English
Wiley
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List of Tables

1.1 Risk Assessment Tools 8
4.1 Farm Chemicals Found in the Soil on Proposed Building Site 46
4.2 Chemicals Used to Manufacture Widget A 48
5.1 Required Types of Information 59
5.2 Methods of Collecting Information 60
5.3 Examples of Data Recording 61
5.4 Analysis Techniques 63
6.1 Example of Hazard List for Grill 70
6.2 Example of Hazard List 71
6.3 Examples of Hazardous Energy Sources 72
6.4 Analysis of Procedure 74
6.5 Partial PHA of Infant Crib 78
7.1 Dice Probabilities 83
7.2 Probabilities of Dice Events 84
7.3 Probabilities of Second Round 85
7.4 Dice Matrix 93
8.1 Example Failure Rate Data 99
8.2 Hardware Failure Data 101
8.3 Binning of the Data 102
8.4 Accident Probabilities 104
8.5 Space Shuttle Flight Stats 104
9.1 FMEA 121
9.2 Process Steps 122
9.3 Failure Modes 122
9.4 Effect of Potential Failures 123
9.5 Potential Causes of the Failures 124
9.6 Control Measures 127
9.7 Criticality 129
9.8 Example of a Risk Matrix 130
9.9 Criticality Analysis 131
10.1 Recovery Action 142
10.2 THERP Tables 145
10.3 Control Switches 145
10.4 Total HEP Calculations 147
12.1 Accident Sequence 164
12.2 Event Sequence with Probabilities 165
12.3 Decision Tree 1 Analysis 170
12.4 Accident Classification and Associated Cost 172
12.5 Probability of Accidents 173
12.6 Cost of Accidents 174
12.7 Events to be Analyzed in Chernobyl Event 179
13.1 Functions of the Major Components of a Space Shuttle ...
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