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The construction of earthquake disaster area involves a multitude of concerns, where safety considerations generally range primacy. During practical reconstruction planning, sometimes there are many schemes providing to expert, and many factors restrict the process of decision making. So this article regards the safety planning of earthquake reconstruction area as a multi-attribute group decision...
Protecting the public from an airborne toxic-gas release requires that appropriate protective actions be selected quickly. When the leakage of toxic-gas happening, the emergency responders must take protective action, namely evacuation or shelter-in-place. But the occurring and developing process of the leakage of toxic-gas are much uncertain, so the decision makers should manage the scene and deicide...
Synthetic and Integrated Analysis of Project Risk (SIAPR), based on the System Theory, is focused on the interrelationship of risk probabilities and the interaction effect of risk impacts, via the VERT method. In this paper four processes of SIAPR is provided, and then an application of SIAPR is described in detail, including the application planning, the methods and important achievements of each...
Software Risk Evaluation (SRE) is a process for identifying, analyzing, and developing mitigation strategies for risks in a software intensive system while it is in development. Risk assessment incorporates risk analysis and risk management, i.e. it combines systematic processes for risk identification and determination of their consequences, and how to deal with these risks? Many risk assessment...
The standard GB/T 20438 contains a lot of useful information and guidance for safety improvement regarding the use of safety systems. However, some of the basic concepts and methods for loss of safety qualification are somewhat confusing in domestic. This paper presents the concepts of safety life cycle, risk and safety integrity level, and all that concepts are clarified to avoid misunderstanding...
New API structural integrity management recommended practice and post-hurricane inspection bulletin, MMS proposed changes to CFR's on decommissioning, and increased interest in developing risk based inspection plans for offshore assets require better understanding of reliability principles. This paper will discuss the fundamentals of RBI from a practical viewpoint and gives details of recently published...
With the fast development of transportation at sea, establishing vessel traffic services (VTS) is reaching a new high tide in order to more effectively guarantee vessel traffic safety, protect maritime environment and increase traffic efficiency. Formal safety assessment (FSA) has been considered a powerful tool that can help ensure that limited resources are allocated scientifically for these purposes...
Oil and gas production away from the shores implies extra risk that requires special safety attention. In this work, a brief illustration of the nature of oil and gas production installations and activities are presented. The risks involved in the operations. Finally the points of integration between HSE management and practice are demonstrated. A large number of human factors involved in the operations...
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