Assessment of catastrophe risk and potential losses in industry

نویسندگان

  • Paul Kleindorfer
  • Ulku G. Oktem
  • Ankur Pariyani
  • Warren D. Seider
چکیده

This paper describes the potential contribution of near-miss management systems to improving company profitability and reducing the frequency and severity of major industrial accidents. The near-miss concept has long been understood in different industries, as examples in this paper illustrate. However, what has been largely missing is the integration of near-miss management into the culture and day to day operations in a manner that underlines the critical connections between near-misses and behavior. Often, near-miss management has played an ex post forensic role in risk management rather than the alerting role as a means of summarizing leading indicators and precursors of hazardous conditions. This paper describes several strands of recent research that aim to correct this and to make near-miss management an organic element of Enterprise Risk Management. In addition, a new concept, “potential safety profit loss”, is introduced to calculate the potential monetary losses due to unexpected shutdowns and accidents..

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Computers & Chemical Engineering

دوره 47  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012