Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The safety case and its associated reports are becoming a mechanism for achieving safety goals, a valuable decision-support asset and a vital industrial liability management tool. This book provides a concentrated source document for assessing and constructing safety cases and safety case reports - from understanding their purposes, through their development and on to their presentation.

Industrial safety --- Risk management. --- Accident investigation --- Public records. --- Authorship. --- Government records --- Accidents --- 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 --- Investigation --- Prevention --- Public administration --- Records --- Archives --- Government information --- Investigations --- Insurance --- Management --- System safety

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Developments in Risk-based Approaches to Safety contains the invited papers presented at the Fourteenth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held at Bristol, UK in February 2006. The papers included in this volume address the most critical topics in the field of safety-critical systems. The focus this year, considered from various perspectives, is on recent developments in risk-based approaches. Subjects discussed include innovation in risk analysis, management risk, the safety case, software safety, language development and the creation of systems for complex control functions. Papers provide a mix of industrial experience and academic research results and are presented under the headings: Tutorial, New Approaches to Risk Assessment, Experience of Developing Safety Cases, Management Influence on Safety, Software Safety, New Technologies in Safety-critical Systems, Adding Dimensions to Safety Cases.

Industrial safety --- Automatic control --- Computer software --- Management --- Reliability --- 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 --- Prevention --- Information Technology --- Software Engineering --- Software engineering. --- Computer system performance. --- Software Engineering. --- System Performance and Evaluation. --- Computer software engineering --- Engineering --- Computer system failures. --- Computer failures --- Computer malfunctions --- Computer systems --- Failure of computer systems --- System failures (Engineering) --- Fault-tolerant computing --- Failures

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

An invaluable guide for indoor air quality that every HVAC designer should have! This covers essential background information and an overview of what factors affect indoor air quality.

Indoor air pollution. --- Industrial buildings --- Industrial hygiene. --- Smoking --- Tobacco smoke pollution. --- Ventilation --- Heating and ventilation --- Design. --- Environmental aspects. --- Design and construction. --- Buildings --- Ventilating --- Air conditioning --- Dampness in buildings --- Environmental tobacco smoke --- Tobacco smoke --- Indoor air pollution --- Passive smoking --- Cigarette habit --- Cigarette smoking --- Tobacco smoking --- Tobacco use --- Employees --- Health of workers --- Hygiene, Industrial --- Industrial health engineering --- Occupational health and safety --- Occupational safety and health --- Occupations --- Work environment --- Environmental health --- Industrial management --- Medicine, Industrial --- Air --- Sick building syndrome --- Aerodynamics --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental aspects --- Health and hygiene --- Health aspects --- Pollution, Indoor --- Pollution

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book presents notions and ideas from the foundations of a statistical treatment of risks. Bayesian methods are frequently used in that area, hence a reasonable proportion of the presentation is devoted to such approaches. Modern statistical tools, namely Poisson regression, analysis of deviance, extreme-value theory and threshold methods are also used to identify and solve practical problems. The knowledge of such tools facilitates the understanding of the role of probability in risk analysis and proper use of outputs given by software packages. The book is written with a student in mind who has studied elementary undergraduate courses in engineering mathematics, perhaps including an introductory course in statistics. The text emphasizes an understanding of the theory and methods presented. Hence, comments are given verbally and an intuitive reasoning is frequent. This is not just another new textbook on elementary probability and statistics, but focuses strongly on applications within the field of risk and safety analysis.

Engineering mathematics. --- Probabilities. --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Probability --- Statistical inference --- Combinations --- Mathematics --- Chance --- Least squares --- Mathematical statistics --- Risk --- Reliability of equipment --- Systems reliability --- Engineering --- Maintainability (Engineering) --- Probabilities --- Systems engineering --- Plant performance --- Safety factor in engineering --- Structural failures --- Engineering analysis --- Mathematical analysis --- Statistics. --- Distribution (Probability theory. --- System safety. --- Civil engineering. --- Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences. --- Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes. --- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk. --- Civil Engineering. --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Econometrics --- Public works --- Safety, System --- Safety of systems --- Systems safety --- Accidents --- Industrial safety --- Distribution functions --- Frequency distribution --- Characteristic functions --- Prevention --- Risk assessment --- Statistical methods. --- Statistics . --- Quality control. --- Reliability. --- Industrial safety. --- 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 --- System safety --- Dependability --- Trustworthiness --- Conduct of life --- Factory management --- Industrial engineering --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Standardization --- Quality assurance --- Quality of products

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Computer software reliability has never been more important. Today, computers are employed in areas as diverse as air traffic control, nuclear reactors, aircraft, real-time military, industrial process control, security system control, biometric scan-systems, automotive, mechanical and safety control, and hospital patient monitoring systems. Many of these applications require critical functionality as software applications increase in size and complexity. System Software Reliability is an introduction to software reliability engineering as well as a detailed survey of the state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies and tools used to assess the reliability of software and combined software-hardware systems. The most recent research results in the field are reported and future directions in the subject are signposted. This comprehensive text will be of interest to: • graduate students as an introduction to software reliability engineering and a textbook for graduate courses; • software and reliability engineers as a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field; and, • researchers and lecturers in universities and research institutions as a one-volume reference. The Springer Series in Reliability Engineering publishes high-quality books in important areas of current theoretical research and development in reliability, and in areas that bridge the gap between theory and application in areas of interest to practitioners in industry, laboratories, business, and government.

Engineering. --- Software engineering. --- Statistics. --- Computational intelligence. --- Complexity, Computational. --- Quality control. --- Reliability. --- Industrial safety. --- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk. --- Computational Intelligence. --- Complexity. --- Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences. --- Software Engineering. --- 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 --- Complexity, Computational --- Electronic data processing --- Machine theory --- Intelligence, Computational --- Artificial intelligence --- Soft computing --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Mathematics --- Econometrics --- Computer software engineering --- Engineering --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Prevention --- Systems software. --- Computer software --- Computer systems software --- System software --- System safety. --- Safety, System --- Safety of systems --- Systems safety --- Industrial safety --- Systems engineering --- Computational complexity. --- Statistics .