Principles of engineering safety: Risk and uncertainty reduction

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 798-805

  Möller, Niklas ^a   Hansson, Sven Ove ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Inherently safe design; Probabilistic risk analysis; Probabilistic safety analysis; Risk; Safe fail; Safety; Safety engineering; Safety factors; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; RISK ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SYSTEMATIZATION; UNCERTAINTY REDUCTION;

SAFETY ENGINEERING;

EID: 39749101321     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2007.03.031     Document Type: Article

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