Category: Risk Management

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First Eleven steps to a safer aviation industry

Doug Owen
Posted on by Doug Owen
Research has shown that many aircraft accidents are contributed to by maintenance errors that are induced or aggravated by aircraft design and technical documentation. However, improved user-centred design and documentation can reduce maintenance error and its consequences. Many design organisations already recognise this, along with the opportunities human factors (HF) integration provides to reduce lifecycle ... Read more.

KBAI™ – the definitive addition to your O&M strategy

Andrew Martin
Posted on by Andrew Martin
There is much talk within the renewables industry at present around operation and maintenance  (O&M) strategies. With questions being raised over cost vs. downtime, and with many of the new round three farms being located far offshore, maintaining these assets is an increasingly costly business. At present wind farms average around six maintenance visits per ... Read more.

Level crossings and a noble attempt to save 6,000 lives a year

Andrew Foulkes
Posted on by Andrew Foulkes
It might sound like it sprung from the minds of the same Public Relations execs who brought us ‘National Sausage Week’ or ‘Sunglasses Day’, but International Level Crossing Day (May 7) shines a light on a genuine safety issue that affects every corner of the world. Around 6,000 fatalities are recorded at level crossings each ... Read more.

Spotlight on BOP

Jason Knights
Posted on by Jason Knights
Between April and July 2010, an estimated 4.9 million barrels of crude oil gushed from the damaged Macondo well into the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion that killed 11 workers and destroyed the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. By the time the leak was stopped, oil had affected more than 1,000 miles of coast in ... Read more.

Learning across industries – do we really do it?

Inge Alme
Posted on by Inge Alme
Earlier this summer I attended the combined PSAM and ESREL conference in Helsinki, probably the largest and most influential conference for risk and reliability practitioners this year. Key experts from industries like nuclear power, oil and gas, aviation, rail, and process industry, shared their thoughts and new ideas for improvements in the field of risk ... Read more.
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