| Title |
Quantified risk assessment. |
| SubTitle |
Its input to decision making. |
| Author |
HSE |
| Publisher |
HSE Books |
| Date of Publication |
1989 |
| Length |
30 pages |
| ISBN |
0717605205 |
| Price Exc. VAT |
£4.00 |
| VAT Rate |
0% |
| Product Type |
Hard Copy |
| Format |
Paper |
| Notes |
previously published with ISBN 0118854992 |
| Abstract |
Studies cases in which a Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) was used to help judge the risks from certain nuclear and non-nuclear installations. Contents: Purposes of QRA; General approach to QRA; Expression of the results of a QRA; Extent and nature of risks, and their effects upon prediction; Sizewell B; Hazardous situations; Can experience validate predictions? Discussion of apparent relative risks; Wider issues and examples of risk-assessment based decisions; Nature of decisions; Risks to society. |
| Keywords |
Tolerability of risk; |