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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book summarizes work being pursued in the context of the CIPRNet (Critical Infrastructure Preparedness and Resilience Research Network) research project, co-funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The project is intended to provide concrete and on-going support to the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) research communities, enhancing their preparedness for CI-related emergencies, while also providing expertise and technologies for other stakeholders to promote their understanding and mitigation of the consequences of CI disruptions, leading to enhanced resilience. The book collects the tutorial material developed by the authors for several courses on the modelling, simulation and analysis of CIs, representing extensive and integrated CIP expertise. It will help CI stakeholders, CI operators and civil protection authorities understand the complex system of CIs, and help them adapt to these changes and threats in order to be as prepared as possible for mitigating emergencies and crises affecting or arising from CIs.

Pathology --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Medicine. --- Cardiology. --- Hematology. --- Surgery. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Surgery, Primitive --- Haematology --- Internal medicine --- Blood --- Heart --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Physicians --- Diseases --- Computational complexity. --- Computer simulation. --- Quality control. --- Reliability. --- Industrial safety. --- Electrical engineering. --- Complexity. --- Simulation and Modeling. --- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk. --- Communications Engineering, Networks.

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The authors of this book set out a system of safety strategies and interventions for managing patient safety on a day-to-day basis and improving safety over the long term. These strategies are applicable at all levels of the healthcare system from the frontline to the regulation and governance of the system. There have been many advances in patient safety, but we now need a new and broader vision that encompasses care throughout the patient’s journey. The authors argue that we need to see safety through the patient’s eyes, to consider how safety is managed in different contexts and to develop a wider strategic and practical vision in which patient safety is recast as the management of risk over time. Most safety improvement strategies aim to improve reliability and move closer toward optimal care. However, healthcare will always be under pressure and we also require ways of managing safety when conditions are difficult. We need to make more use of strategies concerned with detecting, controlling, managing and responding to risk. Strategies for managing safety in highly standardised and controlled environments are necessarily different from those in which clinicians constantly have to adapt and respond to changing circumstances. This work is supported by the Health Foundation. The Health Foundation is an independent charity committed to bringing about better health and health care for people in the UK. The charity’s aim is a healthier population in the UK, supported by high quality health care that can be equitably accessed. The Foundation carries out policy analysis and makes grants to front-line teams to try ideas in practice and supports research into what works to make people’s lives healthier and improve the health care system, with a particular emphasis on how to make successful change happen. A key part of the work is to make links between the knowledge of those working to deliver health and health care with research evidence and analysis. The aspiration is to create a virtuous circle, using what works on the ground to inform effective policymaking and vice versa. Good health and health care are vital for a flourishing society. Through sharing what is known, collaboration and building people’s skills and knowledge, the Foundation aims to make a difference and contribute to a healthier population.

Health administration. --- Quality control. --- Reliability. --- Industrial safety. --- Medical research. --- Practice of medicine. --- Health Administration. --- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk. --- Quality of Life Research. --- Practice and Hospital Management. --- Medical practice --- Practice of medicine --- Physician practice acquisitions --- Biomedical research --- Medical research --- Industrial accidents --- Industries --- Job safety --- Occupational hazards, Prevention of --- Occupational health and safety --- Occupational safety and health --- Prevention of industrial accidents --- Prevention of occupational hazards --- Safety, Industrial --- Safety engineering --- Safety measures --- Safety of workers --- Accidents --- System safety --- Dependability --- Trustworthiness --- Conduct of life --- Factory management --- Industrial engineering --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Standardization --- Quality assurance --- Quality of products --- Prevention

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Technology has made human lives incomparably better. Civilization as we know it would utterly collapse without it. However, if not properly managed, technology can and will be systematically abused and misuse and thereby become one of the biggest threats to humankind. This open access book applies proactive crisis management to the management of technology organizations to make them more sustainable and socially responsible for the betterment of humankind. It forecasts the unintended consequences of technology and offers methods to counteract it.

Leadership. --- Social responsibility of business. --- Quality control. --- Reliability. --- Industrial safety. --- Business Strategy/Leadership. --- Corporate Social Responsibility. --- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk. --- Industrial accidents --- Industries --- Job safety --- Occupational hazards, Prevention of --- Occupational health and safety --- Occupational safety and health --- Prevention of industrial accidents --- Prevention of occupational hazards --- Safety, Industrial --- Safety engineering --- Safety measures --- Safety of workers --- Accidents --- System safety --- Dependability --- Trustworthiness --- Conduct of life --- Factory management --- Industrial engineering --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Standardization --- Quality assurance --- Quality of products --- Business --- Corporate accountability --- Corporate responsibility --- Corporate social responsibility --- Corporations --- CSR (Corporate social responsibility) --- Social responsibility, Corporate --- Social responsibility of industry --- Business ethics --- Issues management --- Ability --- Command of troops --- Followership --- Prevention --- Social responsibility --- Social aspects --- Business Strategy/Leadership --- Corporate Social Responsibility --- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk --- Open Access --- Theory of the unthinkable --- Managing tech --- Proactive crisis management --- Office for socially responsible technology (OSRT) --- Chief Technology Officer --- Chief Officers for Crisis Management and Strategy --- Dialectical thinking --- Toulmin Argumentation Framework (TAF) --- Wicked Messes --- Tech court --- The socially responsible tech company --- Information crises --- Business strategy --- Business ethics & social responsibility --- Reliability engineering

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The use of non-standard technologies such as superconductivity, cryogenics and radiofrequency pose challenges for the safe operation of accelerator facilities that cannot be addressed using only best practice from occupational safety in conventional industry. This book introduces readers to different occupational safety issues at accelerator facilities and is directed to managers, scientists, technical personnel and students working at current or future accelerator facilities. While the focus is on occupational safety – how to protect the people working at these facilities – the book also touches on “machine safety” – how to prevent accelerators from doing structural damage to themselves. This open access book offers a first introduction to safety at accelerator facilities. Presenting an overview of the safety-related aspects of the specific technologies employed in particle accelerators, it highlights the potential hazards at such facilities and current prevention and protection measures. It closes with a review of safety management and organization at accelerator facilities. .

Particle acceleration. --- Physical measurements. --- Measurement   . --- Quality control. --- Reliability. --- Industrial safety. --- Low temperature physics. --- Low temperatures. --- Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics. --- Measurement Science and Instrumentation. --- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk. --- Low Temperature Physics. --- Cryogenics --- Low temperature physics --- Temperatures, Low --- Temperature --- Cold --- Industrial accidents --- Industries --- Job safety --- Occupational hazards, Prevention of --- Occupational health and safety --- Occupational safety and health --- Prevention of industrial accidents --- Prevention of occupational hazards --- Safety, Industrial --- Safety engineering --- Safety measures --- Safety of workers --- Accidents --- System safety --- Dependability --- Trustworthiness --- Conduct of life --- Factory management --- Industrial engineering --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Standardization --- Quality assurance --- Quality of products --- Measuring --- Mensuration --- Mathematics --- Technology --- Metrology --- Physical measurements --- Measurements, Physical --- Mathematical physics --- Measurement --- Particles (Nuclear physics) --- Acceleration (Mechanics) --- Nuclear physics --- Prevention --- Acceleration --- Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics --- Measurement Science and Instrumentation --- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk --- Low Temperature Physics --- Accelerator Physics --- Industrial and Production Engineering --- Radiation safety --- Hierarchy of safety measures --- Accelerator operation --- Laser safety --- Ionising radiation --- Superconducting radio frequency --- Superconducting magnet --- Cryostat Design --- Open access --- Particle & high-energy physics --- Scientific standards, measurement etc --- Reliability engineering