Marvin Rausand - Risk Assessment

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Second Edition

Marvin Rausand

Stein Haugen

This edition first published 2020

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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data

Names: Rausand, Marvin, author. | Haugen, Stein, author.

Title: Risk assessment : theory, methods, and applications / Marvin

Rausand, Stein Haugen.

Description: Second edition. | Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2020. |

Series: Wiley series in statistics in practice | Includes

bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019041379 (print) | LCCN 2019041380 (ebook) | ISBN

9781119377238 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119377283 (adobe pdf) | ISBN

9781119377221 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Technology–Risk assessment. | Risk assessment.

Classification: LCC T174.5 .R37 2020 (print) | LCC T174.5 (ebook) | DDC

363.1/02–dc22

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019041379

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019041380

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To Hella, Guro and Idunn, Emil and Tiril

To Jorunn, Trine, Ingrid, Kristian and Brage, Nora and Alma

This book gives a comprehensive introduction to risk analysis and risk assessment, with focus on the theory and the main methods for such analyses. The objects studied are technical or sociotechnical systems, and we delimit our attention to potential, sudden, and major accidents. Day‐to‐day safety problems and negative health effects due to long‐term exposure are outside the scope of the book. Topics, such as financial risk are also outside the scope. More detailed objectives and delimitations of the book are supplied at the end of Chapter 1.

This second edition is a major update of the first edition (Rausand 2011). Almost all sections have been reorganized and rewritten. The most significant changes include:

Chapters 1 and 2 are totally rewritten and many definitions have been rephrased.