Title: Quantitative safety goals for risk management of industrial facilities
Abstract: This paper discusses the issues, constraints and conflicts involved in risk management for industrial facilities and proposes a global and explicit approach to numerical safety goals. The use of such quantitative targets is part of a more general strategy of risk management. The factors involved are technical, organizational, ethical, social, legal and economic. In order to set priorities among safety measures, the first step is a probabilistic risk analysis, which should not be limited to technical parameters but should also include organizational factors. A review of precedents and “floating numbers” commonly used as safety targets is presented. A general structure of safety goals is then proposed with illustrative numbers. The case of existing facilities and the treatment of uncertainties are discussed briefly.
Publication Year: 1994
Publication Date: 1994-03-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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