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Heinrich’s domino model of accident causation — Risk Engineering

WEBHerbert W. Heinrich was a pioneering occupational safety researcher, whose 1931 publication Industrial Accident Prevention: A Scientific Approach [Heinrich 1931] …

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Safety models and accident models

WEBA safety model is a set of beliefs or hypotheses (often implicit) about the features and conditions that contribute to the safety of a system. An accident model is a …

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Farmer’s diagram, or F-N curve

WEBOverview. An F-N diagram, also called a Farmer diagram after the name of the first author to have used this representation, is a graphical representation of the level …

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Risk Engineering: Linear regression analysis of smoking data

WEBThe British Doctors’ Study followed the health of a large number of physicians in the UK over the period 1951–2001. It provided conclusive evidence of linkage between smoking …

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Risk acceptability and tolerability

WEBThese slides develop the distinction between acceptability and tolerability of risks, describe the factors that influence acceptability, and outline a number of decision …

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Psychological safety — Risk Engineering

WEBNote that psychological safety is a group phenomenon, and is a component of the culture of small work teams.It is influenced by the organizational culture, The culture …

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Risk metrics: Measuring safety performance to improve risk …

WEBOther resources. We recommend the following sources of further information on this topic: A guide to measuring health & safety performance, UK Health and Safety …

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Professional bodies in risk engineering and safety management

WEBNetworking and career development. A number of professional bodies related to the health and safety profession may be of interest to you as a future …

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Risk modelling and quantification

WEBThe probabilistic approach to risk analysis estimates risk as a function of: the severity — or magnitude — of each consequence. the likelihood (probability) of the …

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Free courseware on risk engineering and safety management

WEBRisk Engineering. This site provides e-learning courseware and training materials (slides, lecture notes, problem sets, Python notebooks…) on risk engineering, loss prevention …

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Classic safety posters — Risk Engineering

WEBClassic safety posters. Posters have long been used to communicate safety messages to workers in industry, and to the general population (often in a fairly …

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Safety culture: A contentious and confused notion

WEBThe safety culture of an organisation is the product of individual and group values, attitudes, perceptions, competencies, and patterns of behaviour that determine …

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Learning from incidents and accidents: The gift of failure

WEBLearning from accidents is the acquisition of knowledge and skills from a thorough study of accidents and their antecedents. The knowledge acquired may …

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The Piper Alpha disaster — Risk Engineering

WEBOn July 6, 1988, the Piper Alpha oil platform experienced a series of catastrophic explosions and fires. This platform, located in the North Sea approximately …

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Insurance and risk: some history — Risk Engineering

WEBInsurance and risk: some history. The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian law code dated from around 1750 BC. It consists of 282 laws dealing with all aspect of …

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Linear regression analysis of combined cycle power plant data

WEBThe dataset contains 9568 data points collected from a combined cycle power plant over 6 years, when power plant was under full load. A combined cycle power plant is composed …

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