Basics
SAFETY-AN IMPORTANT QUALITY CHARACTERISTIC
What Is Quality? In construction, the term ‘quality’ is one of the commonest catchwords. However, it is rarely…
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Basics
Definition of Structural Safety for Design Codes
We have seen in Chapter 1 that structural safety is a very broad concept, encompassing far more than…
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RISK ANALYSIS
We now turn away from general ideas to detailed comments on risk assessment. However, we are faced with…
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Ways of Specifying Risk
The way in which risk is specified is important, both for communicating it to others and also for…
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Kinds of Risk
A number of different types of risk can be distinguished.” We will consider four: individually perceived risk, collectively…
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Consequences
That part of risk we have called ‘consequences’ does not have the philosophical problems associated with probability. There…
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RISK ASSESSMENT
In an informal sense risk analysis has been used throughout the history of mankind. Risk is always associated…
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UNCERTAINTY MANAGEMENT
Most, if not all, of the large engineered facilities with which this book is concerned are large ‘one-off’…
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THE QUALITIES OF TRUTH AND SAFETY
It is possible to draw an analogy between the scientist’s search for truth and the engineer’s search for…
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The legal framework for taking decisions about risk
As we said above, earlier versions of this book were aligned to the UK legal framework for taking…
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