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We'll meet at 11:00 in VG12 to plan the seminars for this springs.Please also welcome Nicola, our new spring.

Please welcome the introductions of one new PhD-student in the RAMS group who will introduce himself (10min)

Nicola has a master in Chemical Engineering and PhD Environmental, Safety and Chemical Engineering from University of Bologna in Italy (considered one of the oldest universities in Europe/the world, from late 11th century). His field of research is risk analysis and dynamic risk modelling. His office will be next to Anne’s.

(SFI SUBPRO), and at same time also our new Ass. Prof. Nicola Paltrinieri.

Presentation of journal paper submitted for review.

"Enhanced Barrier Management by Learning from Accident Causation Theories"

 Abstract

Several accident causation theories have been developed to identify why major accidents occur and to prevent them from occurring (see e.g., Rosness et al., 2010). The objective of this article is to investigate relations among the theories and suggest an enhanced barrier management process utilising the learnings from each accident causation theory. By utilising the accident causation theories and the barrier and operational risk analysis (BORA) as a basis, this article suggests two additional stages to the barrier management process and six additional risk influencing factors (RIFs) in the barrier analysis, which can enhance barrier management process. The enhanced barrier management process may facilitate effective and efficient control of risks which can lead to major accidents, and thereby it may contribute to preventing major accidents in many different industries where barriers play an important role for controlling risks.

Topic of lecture to be defined in more detail:

• Selected computational challenges and approaches for e.g. fault tree analysis