Safety Analysis: Principles and Practice in Occupational Safety

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CRC Press, Jun 28, 2001 - Technology & Engineering - 302 pages
Safety analysis can be applied as a practical tool in occupational safety. It has three main elements: the identification of hazards, the assessment of risks that arise, and the generation of measures to increase the level of safety. A number of simple methods are described that can be used in industry and the workplace, such as deviation analysis,
 

Contents

1 Accidents and safety
1
2 Features of systems and accidents
16
3 Safety analysis
33
4 Risk assessment
41
5 Energy Analysis
54
6 Job Safety Analysis
68
7 Deviation Analysis
77
8 Hazard and operability studies
107
10 Analysis of safety functions
147
11 Some further methods
168
12 Methodological overview
195
13 Safety analysisplanning and implementation
209
14 Theoretical aspects
235
15 Examples of safety analysis
250
16 Concluding remarks
281
17 References
282

9 Fault Tree Analysis
120

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