CONTENTS

Preface

List of Contributors

Operability studies and Hazard Analysis in the Management of Safety

D.B. Harries

Strengthening the Link Between Management Factors and Quantified Risk Assessment

E.J. Smith and M.J. Harris

“SURVIVE” A Safety Analysis Method for a Survey of Rule Violation Incentives and Effects

N.J. Holloway

Wise Men Learn by Others Harms, Fools by Their Own: Organisational Barriers to Learning the Lessons from Major Accidents

D.A. Lucas

Organisational, Management and Human Factors in Quantified Risk Assessment: A Theoretical and Empirical Basis for Modification of Risk Estimates

N.W. Hurst, L.J. Bellamy, T.A.W. Geyer and

J.A. Astley

Human Factors Technologies for Safety and Reliability in the '90s

J.C. Williams

A Methodology for Applying Traditional Safety Analysis Techniques to Systems Handling Crowd Flows

L.C. Dunbar, M.S. Carey and S.P. Whalley

The Development of a Human Factors Strategy for the Design and Assessment of Plant and Equipment:

T. Waters

A Resources-Flexible Approach to Human Reliability Assessment for PRA

B. Kirwan

Assessing the Safety of Existing Plants - a Case Study

P. Ball and C. Leighton

Operability Study Adaptations in Selected Field Work Areas

C.J. Bullock, F.R. Mitchell and R.L. Skelton

Some Aspects of the Use of Quantified Risk Assessment for Decision-Making

R.P. Pape

The Application of Root Cause Analysis to Incident Investigation to Reduce the Frequency of Major Accidents

R.B. Whittingham

Management of Safety through Lessons from Case Histories

N.F. Pidgeon, J.R. Stone, D.I. Blockley and B.A. Turner

Aircraft Crash Studies in AEA Technology

J.P. Byrne and J. Jowett

The Selection of Field Component Reliability Data for Use in Nuclear Safety Studies

B.A. Coxson and M. Tabaie

Process Visibility - the Key to Software Reliability Assessment

C. Dale

Some Results of the Alvey Software Reliability Modelling Project

C. McCollin, D.W. Wightman, P. Dixon and N. Davies

The Acceptance of Software Quality as a Contributor to Safety

B,W. Finnie and I.H.A. Johnston

Enhanced Partial Beta Factor Method for Quantifying Dependent Failures

L.P. Davies

A Bayesian Analysis of Pollution Incidents through Time

N. Davies, J.C. Naylor and J.M. Marriott

An Expert System for Integrating the Physical Modelling and Reliability Assessment of Engineering Systems

G.A. Richards and Z.A. Gralewski

HARRIS - a PC-Based Data System to Support Risk and Reliability Studies

J.P. Stead

Reliability Analysis of the Industrial Electricity Supply part I: Outline of the Problem

M.H.J. Bollen and P. Massee

Reliability Analysis of the Industrial Electricity Supply part II: Two Examples

P. Massee and M.H.J. Bollen

Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis of Materials for Structural Fatigue and Fracture

W. Zhao and M.J. Baker