This item is in: Materials > Mechanical engineering and general materials

The risk management of safety and dependability

W Wong, Consultant, UK

 - complies with the recommendations of the Engineering Technology Board
 - assesses ways of recognising hazards and procedures for reducing risk in the design of processes, plant and machinery
 - provides detailed accounts of three major disasters and describes the lessons to be learnt in relation to risk management

The issue of risk should be embedded into the mindset of every engineer and manager to improve safety and dependability. Companies can be held accountable through law when a gross failing in health and safety management has fatal consequences. Here risk management, the organisational structure required and the main factors needed for its successful execution are explored. What risks must be managed as a legal requirement? How is risk quantified? What methods can be used to reduce risk? Such questions are addressed, alongside case histories of recent disasters to illustrate failures in risk management.

In an easy-to-read and accessible way, The risk management of safety and dependability presents the key factors involved in successful risk management, so that even non-experts in small and medium-sized organisations, as well as engineers and managers, can apply sound safety and dependability principles.

ISBN 1 84569 712 X
ISBN-13: 978 1 84569 712 9
April 2010
312 pages  234 x 156mm  hardback  
£130.00 / US$220.00 / €160.00

Usually dispatched within 24 hours

About the author

W Wong CEng, MSaRS, FIMechE, FIMarEST is an engineer and author with a wide experience in industry up to senior management level. Since retirement, he has continued to consult and lecture on safety and reliability topics.

Titles which may also be of interest:
Aircraft system safety
Fatal accidents
Engineering catastrophes
A quick guide to health and safety

Contents

Ever-present danger: introduction to the principles of risk management
 - Introduction
 - Principles of risk assessment
 - The risk assessment matrix
 - Risk evaluation and control
 - Dependability
 - The risk management process
 - Examples of risk management failures
 - General precepts
 - Summary
 - References

Ignorance is no defence: legislation and the corporate role in managing risk
 - Introduction: management failures
 - An overview of the law in the UK
 - The Health and Safety at Work etc
 - Act 1974
 - The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (MHSWR)
 - The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER)
 - The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR)
 - The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 1994 (COSHH)
 - The Supply of Machinery Safety Regulations 2008 (EEC Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC)
 - The Electromagnetic Compatibility (Amendment) Regulations 2006
 - The Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1999 (COMAH) Amended 2005
 - The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007
 - The Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 2002 (DSEAR)
 - The Equipment and Protective Systems Intended for Use in Potentially Explosive Atmosphere Regulations 1996 (SI 1996/192; ATEX Directive 94/9/EC) Amended 2001
 - The Pressure Equipment Directive 1999 (PED)
 - The Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 2000
 - The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER)
 - Other regulations and standards
 - International health and safety
 - Summary
 - References

How to recognise hazards: learning about generic industrial hazards
 - Introduction
 - Human vulnerability
 - Hazards from waste emissions
 - Hazards from heat emissions and hot surfaces
 - Hazards from noise emissions
 - Hazards from radiation
 - Hazards from latent energy
 - Hazards from other sources
 - Hazards from design error
 - Complacency
 - Summary
 - References

Human factors in risk management: understanding why humans fail and are unreliable
 - Introduction
 - Ergonomics
 - Anthropometrics
 - Physiology
 - Psychology
 - Case histories
 - Summary
 - References

Exposing hazards: techniques to find possible risks of unacceptable failures in procedures, machines and systems
 - Introduction
 - ‘What if ’ procedures
 - Block flow diagrams
 - Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
 - Hazard and operability studies (HAZOP)
 - A cautionary example
 - Summary
 - References

Safe enough? Methods and procedures for evaluating and reducing risk in the design of processes, plant and machinery
 - Introduction
 - Bow tie analysis
 - Human error
 - Redundancy
 - Series systems
 - Reliability
 - Component failure
 - Fault tree analysis (FTA)
 - Pressure control system
 - Safety integrity level (SIL)
 - Summary
 - References

Inherently unsafe: safety issues in planning a new facility
 - Introduction
 - Site location
 - Scope considerations
 - Design for safety
 - Hazardous area classification
 - Fire prevention
 - Design to ensure safety
 - Design for reliability
 - Summary
 - References

Product risk: managing risk in the design and development process
 - Introduction
 - Product risk assessment
 - Reliability testing
 - Life characteristics
 - Reliability target
 - Statistical data
 - Data enhancement
 - Test data processing
 - Test data analysis
 - Warranty analysis
 - Summary
 - References

Asset integrity: learning about the cause and symptoms of age and decay and the need for maintenance to avoid catastrophic failures
 - Introduction
 - Maintenance strategies
 - Failure due to service deterioration
 - Failures due to corrosion
 - Pressure systems failures
 - Risk-based inspection (RBI)
 - Maintenance resources
 - Summary
 - References

Coping with risk: how to ensure the health and safety of people at work
 - Introduction
 - The cost of safety and reliability
 - The occupational safety and health management system
 - Education and training
 - Supervision
 - Control
 - Monitoring performance
 - Emergency planning and management
 - Plant modification: change procedures
 - Auditing safety
 - Security
 - Summary
 - References

Management disasters: the lessons to be learnt from two major disasters
 - Introduction
 - Bhopal
 - Piper Alpha
 - Nimrod
 - Summary
 - References

Appendix
 - Appendix 1: Glossary
 - Appendix 2: Bibliography
 - Appendix 3: Directory of bodies associated with risk management and safety