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Risk Management: With Applications from the Offshore Petroleum Industry (Springer Series in Reliability Engineering) by Professor Terje Aven, Professor Jan Erik Vinnem (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Risk Management: With Applications from the Offshore Petroleum Industry (Springer Series in Reliability Engineering) about?

Risk management is a process to assist in the decision-making. The risk management process takes the potential hazards as a starting point, in order to identify suitable arrangements and measures for accident prevention and emergency response in case of an incident. Risk management is a useful approach to satisfy functional regulatory requirements to safety. Technological developments, organisational changes and increased demand for efficiency have influenced the vulnerability of our society. Thus, safety and risk management is becoming an important field. __Risk Management with Applications from the Offshore Petroleum Industry__ presents an in-depth discussion of some fundamental principles of risk management, related to the use of expected values, uncertainty handling and risk acceptance criteria. A decision framework for risk management is developed that provides a structure for the classification of risk decision problems and a procedure for the execution of the related decision-making processes. Several examples from the offshore petroleum industry are included to illustrate the use of the framework, but it can also be applied in other areas. With the inclusion of a risk manag

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Author
Professor Terje Aven, Professor Jan Erik Vinnem (auth.)
Publisher
Springer-Verlag London Ltd
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9781846286520
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Engineering, Business, Management

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