July 2012
Beginner
416 pages
9h 21m
English
Content preview from Risk Assessment: Tools, Techniques, and Their Applications
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8.2 Overall Summary
Hardware failure data and HEPs are available, but sometimes risk analysts have to dig for them. Hardware failure rate data are available from a variety of sources, including handbooks, databases, research reports, and findings from accident investigations.
HEPs are available from standardized human reliability analysis processes such as THERP, and they can be developed using tools such as the Delphi process. The main point of this chapter is to use the best data available for risk assessments.