Advances in Safety, Reliability and Risk Management : ESREL 2011

 Content: Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Conference organization; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Thematic areas; Accident and incident investigation; A preliminary analysis of the \'News Divine\' incident; Case study: Do activities and out comes of the process safety observations match?; Definition of an algorithm for accident identification; Feasibility of railway suicide prevention strategies: A focus group study; Major accidents and their consequences for risk regulation; Prevention of atypical accident scenarios through the use of resilience based early warning indicators. Suicide and the potential for suicide prevention on the Swedish rail network: A qualitative multiple case studyBayesian methods; An AHP-based approach of risk analysis in Bayesian belief networks; An optimizational resource allocation method for series system reliability life test; Assessing risk based on Bayesian networks and FMECA: A case study; Bayesian network for decision making on ageing facilities; Comparison of fault tree and Bayesian Networks for modeling safety critical components in railway systems. Establishing prior probability distributions for probabilities that pairs of software components fail simultaneouslyParameter estimation in a reservoir engineering application; Reliability based design of engineering systems with monotonic models; Towards a Bayesian Network methodology to improve maintenance of complex semiconductor systems; Work time loss prediction by exploiting occupational accident data; Crisis and emergency management; Functional safety requirements for active protection systems from individual and collective risk criteria. How the use of modelled scenarios can improve risk awareness and risk control in complex environmentsInterdependency-based approach of complex events in critical infrastructure under crisis: A first step toward a global framework; Learning decision making: Some ideas on how novices better can learn from skilled response personnel; Performance evaluation of organizational crisis cell: Methodological proposal at communal level; Quantitative approach of organizational resilience for a Dutch emergency response safety region. Security incidents and subsequent adaptations of disaster response in complex humanitarian emergenciesDecision making under risk; A guidance for implementing decision-aiding in risk management; Dealing with uncertainties in long term investment planning of electricity distribution systems with distributed generation; Forming risk clusters in projects to improve coordination between risk owners; On the use of value of information measure in decision making--A drilling jar case; Performance-based fire safety--risk associated with different designs.
 Abstract:             Advances in Safety, Reliability and Risk Management contains the papers presented at the 20th European Safety and Reliability (ESREL 2011) annual conference in Troyes, France, in September 2011. The books covers a wide range of topics, including: Accident and Incident Investigation; Bayesian methods; Crisis and Emergency Management; Decision Making under Risk; Dynamic Reliability; Fault Diagnosis, Prognosis and System Health Management; Fault Tolerant Control and Systems; Human Factors and Human Reliability; Maintenance Modelling and Optimisation; Mathematical Methods in Reliability and Safety