About the Book: Safety and Reliability: Methodology and Applications
Risk has become a key concept in modern society. Growing concern about the
environment and a number of disasters have served to focus attention on the
hazards and risks involved in a wide range of activities from offshore oil
production to rail and air transport; from the design of football stadium to the
operation of chemical plants and environmental protection. Today there is a wide
range of techniques available to assess risk and reliability, both in relation
to safety and in the wider sense. These techniques now underpin new legislation
on safety and have relevance over a