Developments in Safety Science and Technology
Ten years of ISSST symposia will be marked and some general.trends noted. For improving safety one has to know where are the risks arid how large are these in order to think of adequate risk reducing countermeasures and prioritize in realizing these. In the first part of the paper the present state of the art of risk assessment will be briefly reviewed and the weaknesses and shortcomings shown. It will be concluded that model improvements and better approaches to hazard identification can be made, however the experimental validation of consequence models shall need a massive, concentrated effort without which no major improvement seems possible. In the field of Safety Science and Technology beside the technical aspects human factor, organization and management developed strongly the last decennia. The latest developments are in improving safety culture. By recent accidents it is shown that to withstand the daily wessure of costs and time, management needs better performance indicators on safety and secondly the attitude shall become such that a high safety level is seen as profit making. The attitude to safety should be by conviction; otherwise safety measures may degrade to a paper exercise. The author refers in the paper also to his previous contributions to this symposium series which now is in existence for ten years.
risk analysis consequence models human factor safety management safety culture
PASMAN Hans J.
国际会议
The 2008 International Symposium on Safety Science and Technology(2008年安全科学技术国际会议)
北京
英文
3-12
2008-09-24（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）