Inherent risk assessment-A new concept to evaluate risk in preliminary design stage

Process Safety and Environmental Protection

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 371-376

  Shariff, Azmi Mohd ^a   Leong, Chan T ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Consequence estimation; Inherent risk; Inherent safety; Inherently safer design; Quantitative Risk Assessment

Indexed keywords

CONSEQUENCE ESTIMATION; INHERENT RISK; INHERENT SAFETY; INHERENTLY SAFER DESIGN; QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT;

DESIGN; EXPLOSIONS; FLAMMABLE MATERIALS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; PROCESS DESIGN; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 74249102476     PISSN: 09575820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psep.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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