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The risk management of safety and dependability : a guide for directors, managers and engineers /
The issue of risk should be embedded into the mindset of every engineer and manager to improve safety and dependability. Companies can be held accountable through law when a gross failing in health and safety management has fatal consequences. Here risk management, the organisational structure requi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boca Raton, Fla. : Oxford :
CRC Press ; Woodhead Pub.,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; The risk management of safety and dependability: A guide for directors, managers and engineers; Copyright; Contents; About the author; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Ever-present danger: an introduction to the principles of risk management; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The principles of risk assessment; 1.3 The risk assessment matrix; 1.4 Risk evaluation and control; 1.5 Dependability; 1.6 The risk management process; 1.7 Examples of risk management failures; 1.8 General precepts; 1.9 Summary; 1.10 References; 2 Ignorance is no defence: legislation and the corporate role in managing risk.
- 2.1 Introduction: management failures2.2 An overview of the law in the UK; 2.3 The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974; 2.4 The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (MHSWR); 2.5 The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER); 2.6 The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR); 2.7 The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 1994 (COSHH); 2.8 The Supply of Machinery Safety Regulations 2008 (Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC); 2.9 The Electromagnetic Compatibility (Amendment) Regulations 2006.
- 2.10 The Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1999 (COMAH) Amended 20052.11 The Construction (Design and Management) (CDM) Regulations 2007; 2.12 The Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 2002 (DSEAR); 2.13 The Equipment and Protective Systems Intended for Use in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 1996 (SI 1996/192) (ATEX Directive94/9/EC, as amended 2001); 2.14 The Pressure Equipment Directive 1999 (PED); 2.15 The Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 2000; 2.16 The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER).
- 2.17 Other regulations and standards2.18 International health and safety; 2.19 Summary; 2.20 References; 3 How to recognise hazards: learning about generic industrial hazards; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Human vulnerability; 3.3 Hazards from waste emissions; 3.4 Hazards from heat emissions and hot surfaces; 3.5 Hazards from noise emissions; 3.6 Hazards from radiation; 3.7 Hazards from latent energy; 3.8 Hazards from other sources; 3.9 Hazards from design error; 3.10 Complacency; 3.11 Summary; 3.12 References; 4 Human factors in risk management: understanding why humans fail and are unreliable.
- 4.1 Introduction4.2 Ergonomics; 4.3 Anthropometrics; 4.4 Physiology; 4.5 Psychology; 4.6 Case histories; 4.7 Summary; 4.8 References; 5 Exposing hazards: techniques to find possible risks of unacceptable failures in procedures, machines and systems; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 'What if' procedure; 5.3 Block flow diagrams; 5.4 Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA); 5.5 Hazard and operability studies (HAZOP); 5.6 A cautionary example; 5.7 Summary; 5.8 References; 6 Safe enough? Methods and procedures for evaluating and reducing risk in the design of processes, plant and machinery; 6.1 Introduction.