Author: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Reactor Safety Study: an Assessment of Accident Risks in U.S. Commercial Nuclear Power Plants
Author: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Fatigue, Long-Term Health, and Highway Safety
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309392527
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
There are approximately 4,000 fatalities in crashes involving trucks and buses in the United States each year. Though estimates are wide-ranging, possibly 10 to 20 percent of these crashes might have involved fatigued drivers. The stresses associated with their particular jobs (irregular schedules, etc.) and the lifestyle that many truck and bus drivers lead, puts them at substantial risk for insufficient sleep and for developing short- and long-term health problems. Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Fatigue, Long-Term Health and Highway Safety assesses the state of knowledge about the relationship of such factors as hours of driving, hours on duty, and periods of rest to the fatigue experienced by truck and bus drivers while driving and the implications for the safe operation of their vehicles. This report evaluates the relationship of these factors to drivers' health over the longer term, and identifies improvements in data and research methods that can lead to better understanding in both areas.
Identifying Behaviors and Situations Associated with Increased Crash Risk for Older Drivers
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437932738
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Improving the Continued Airworthiness of Civil Aircraft
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309173744
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
As part of the national effort to improve aviation safety, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) chartered the National Research Council to examine and recommend improvements in the aircraft certification process currently used by the FAA, manufacturers, and operators.
The Costs of Accidents
Author: Guido CalabresiRisk and Liability in Air Law
Author: George LeloudasPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1135136300
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book is the first attempt to analyse the relevant international conventions governing the liability of airlines to passengers and third parties on the ground from a risk perspective. The book analyses the transformation of the notion of risk over time and identifies the ways and the extent to which social perceptions have influenced the liability of airlines in the aftermath of safety accidents (Warsaw Convention System, Montreal Convention, Rome Convention, and New General Risks Convention) and terrorism related incidents (New Unlawful Interference Convention).
Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law
Author: Peter CanePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107636329
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
The definitive text on personal injury law, now updated to take into account recent significant changes in the law.
Accident Risk Forecasting; a Bibliography
Author: Lois FlynnReasonableness and Risk
Author: Gregory C. KeatingPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190867949
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The law of torts is concerned with what we owe to one another in the way of obligations not to interfere with, or impair, each other's urgent interests as we go about our lives in civil society. The most influential contemporary account of tort law treats tort liability rules as shadow prices. Their role is not to vindicate claimants' own rights and interests, but to induce us to injure one another only when it is economically efficient to do so. The chief competitors to the economic view take tort law's importance to lie primarily in the duties of repair that it imposes on wrongdoers, or in the powers of recourse that it confers on the victims of tortious wrongs. This book argues that tort law's primary obligations address a domain of basic justice and that its rhetoric of reasonableness implies a distinctive morality of mutual right and responsibility. Modern tort law is preoccupied with, and responds to, the special moral significance of harm. That special significance sometimes justifies standards of precaution more stringent than those prescribed by efficiency. This book also examines the regulatory and administrative institutions with which the common law of torts cooperates and competes, treating these as part of a continuum of institutions that instantiate the primary role pursued by modern tort law - that is, to protect our physical integrity and other essential interests from impairment and interference by others, and to do so terms that all those affected might accept as justifiable.
Risk Assessment In Chemical Process Industries
Author: Faisal Irshad KhanPublisher: Discovery Publishing House
ISBN: 9788171414222
Category : Chemical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Contents: Introduction, Qualitative Methods of Risk Assessment, Quantitative Methods of Risk Assessment-I: Consequence Analysis, Quantitative Methods of Risk Assessment-II: Rapid Risk Assessment, Quantitative Methods of Risk Assessment-III: Probabilistic Hazard Assessment, Studies on Chain, of Accidents (Domino Effects), Methods of Hazard Identification, Screening and Ranking, Application of Risk Analysis in Process Design.