Risk & Reliability - An Introductory Text 5th Edition

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PART 1 - GENERAL PRINCIPLES

1.    INTRODUCTION TO RISK AND RELIABILITY CONCEPTS
1.1  The Nature Risk
1.2  Types of Risk
1.3  Risk Management Evolution
1.4  Historical Perspective of Risk
1.5  Reliability
1.6  Quality

2.     RISK PARADIGM & MODELS
2.1   The Rule of Law
2.2   Insurance
2.3   Asset Management
2.4   Threats and Vulnerabilities
2.5   Risk as Variance
2.6   Best Practice
2.7   Simulation
2.8   Culture
2.9   Paradigm Integration
2.10  Risk Models

3.    RISK AND GOVERNANCE
3.1  Risk Management's Role in Good Governance
3.2  Corporate Governance Systems
3.3  Origins of the Good Governance Movement
3.4  The Rise of the Risk Society
3.5  Governance and Non-Financial Risk
3.6  Public Sector Governance and Risk
3.7  Risk and Corporate Citizenship
3.8  Fallout Severity
3.9  Basic Principles of Good Corporate Urban Governance

4.    LIABILITY
4.1  Criminal vs Civil Standard
4.2  Common Law Criteria
4.3  On Juries and Justice
4.4  Due Diligence
4.5  Safety Cases
4.6  Adversarial Legal System Contradictions
4.7  Risk Auditing Systems

5.    CAUSATION
5.1  Paradigms
5.2  Biological Metaphors
5.3  Discrete State Concepts
5.4  Time Sequence
5.5  Energy Damage
5.6  Energy Damage Models
5.7  Latent Conditions

6.    RISK CRITERIA
6.1  Legal Criteria
6.2  Individual Risk Criteria
6.3  Societal Risk Criteria
6.4  Environmental Risk Criteria
6.5  Insurance Criteria
6.6  Ethical Criteria

PART 2 - TECHNIQUES

7.    TOP DOWN TECHNIQUES
7.1  SWOT Assessments
7.2  Upside and Downside Risk
7.3  Vulnerability Assessments
7.4  Enterprise Risk Profiling
7.5  Project Risk Profiling

8.    RANKING TECHNIQUES
8.1  Risk Registers
8.2  Ranking Acute OH&S Hazards
8.3  Ranking Property Loss Prevention Hazards
8.4  Integrated Investment Ranking

9.    MODELLING TECHNIQUES
9.1  Trees
9.2  Blocks
9.3  Integrated Presentation Models
9.4  Common Cause Failures
9.5  Human Error Rates
9.6  Equipment Fault Rates
9.7  System Safety Assurance

10.  BOTTOM UP TECHNIQUES
10.1 RCM
10.2 HazOps
10.3 Common Mode Failures
10.4 Risk Management and the Project Life Cycle
10.5 QRA
10.6 HACCP

11.  GENERATIVE TECHNIQUES
11.1 James Reason et al
11.2 Transparent Independent Rapid Risk Reporting
11.3 Generative Interview Technique
11.4 Generative Solutions Technique

12.  RISK & RELIABILITY MATHEMATICS
12.1 Discrete Event Mathematics
12.2 Breakdown Failure Mathematics
12.3 State Theory Mathematics
12.4 Fractional Dead Time Mathematics

PART 3 - THEMES, APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES

13.  PROCESS INDUSTRY MODELLING
13.1 Safety Cases
13.2 Context (Top Down)
13.3 Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA)
13.4 Fire Modelling
13.5 Pool Fires
13.6 Jet Flames
13.7 Explosions
13.8 Toxic Gas Clouds
13.9 Fire Safety Studies
13.10 Risk Criteria Used in Australia and New Zealand

14.  CRISIS MANAGEMENT
14.1 Intention
14.2 Lessons in Fallout Management
14.3 Design Stage
14.4 Case Studies
14.5 Conclusion

15.  INDUSTRY BASED CASE STUDIES
15.1 Airspace Risk Assessment
15.2 Train Operations Rail Model
15.3 Fire Risk Management (in buildings)
15.4 Transmission Line Risk Management
15.5 Bushfire Risk Management
15.6 Tunnel Risk Management

16.  OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY
16.1 Legislative Framework
16.2 OH&S Risk Assessment
16.3 Performance Indicators
16.4 Information Structures
16.5 Audit & Safety Management Systems

17.  FINANCIAL RISK
17.1 Risk and Opportunity
17.2 Terms
17.3 Utility and Risk
17.4 Models
17.5 Market Risk Mathematics

18.  SECURITY
18.1 Security and Risk Management
18.2 Security Terms
18.3 Basic Elements of Security Management
18.4 The Terrorist Threat