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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784813403321

Autore

Maguire Richard <1968->

Titolo

Safety cases and safety reports : meaning, motivation and management / / Richard Maguire

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , 2017

ISBN

1-317-05988-3

1-317-05989-1

1-315-60748-4

1-281-33211-9

9786611332112

0-7546-8147-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Disciplina

658.3/82

Soggetti

Industrial safety - Authorship

Risk management

Accident investigation

Public records

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Accidents and Safety; 2. The Language of Safety; 3. The Safety Management System; 4. The Purpose of a Safety Case; 5. The Requirement for a Safety Case; 6. Setting a Safety Boundary; 7. Measuring Safety Performance; 8. Safety Targets; 9. So Far as is Reasonably Practicable; 10. Individual, Group and Population Risk; 11. The Safety Team; 12. Costs in Safety; 13. Techniques and Tools for Safety Cases; 14. The Hazard Log; 15. Human Factors in Safety Cases; 16. Software Factors in Safety Cases

17. Management Factors in Safety Cases18. Independent Safety Review; 19. Presentation of the Safety Case; 20. Maintenance of the Safety Case; Epilogue; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The safety case and its associated reports are becoming a mechanism for achieving safety goals, a valuable decision-support asset and a vital



industrial liability management tool. This book provides a concentrated source document for assessing and constructing safety cases and safety case reports - from understanding their purposes, through their development and on to their presentation.