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Evaluation of the Quality of Safety and Risk Analysis in the Chemical Industry
Author(s) -
Suokas Jouko
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
risk analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1539-6924
pISSN - 0272-4332
DOI - 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1988.tb01202.x
Subject(s) - risk analysis (engineering) , quality (philosophy) , reliability (semiconductor) , hazard analysis , identification (biology) , hazard , risk assessment , quality assurance , computer science , management science , engineering , reliability engineering , operations management , business , computer security , philosophy , power (physics) , physics , botany , chemistry , organic chemistry , epistemology , external quality assessment , quantum mechanics , biology
Safety and risk analyses have often been criticized as incomplete and inaccurate. This criticism, however, lacks a sound basis, since there has been little scientific evaluation of the methods developed for safety and risk analysis. The aim of this paper is to present a proposal for establishing measures—reliability, validity, and coverage—to be used in the evaluation of the scientific quality of the hazard identification and accident modeling phases in safety and risk analysis. The paper also presents four main principles for the evaluation of the scientific quality, and a theoretical framework to be used in evaluation. The framework is illustrated with practical examples taken from the chemical industry.