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2023 | Book

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Risk-Conscious Operations Management

An Integrated Paradigm for Complex Engineering System

Author: Prabhakar V. Varde

Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore

Book Series : Risk, Reliability and Safety Engineering

Part of: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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About this book

This book presents various concepts and applications related to risk-conscious operations management. It also provides an overview of the risk-based engineering – fundamental to the concept of risk-conscious operations management. It presents the reliability concept to support Dependency Modelling, which includes hardware systems structures and components for reliability improvement and risk reduction. The book further develops and builds attributes and model for risk-conscious culture – critical to characterize operational approach to risk and presents human factor modelling, where it works on developing an approach for human error precursor analysis. This book will be useful for students, researchers, academicians and professionals working on identifying risk and reliability issues in complex safety and mission critical systems. It will also be beneficial for industry risk-and-reliability experts and operational safety staff working in the complex engineering systems.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
1. Introduction
Abstract
The nuclear industry is credited with maintaining the highest standard of safety; however, the three major accidents, viz. TMI (USA, 1978), Chernobyl (Russia 1986) and Fukushima (Japan, 2011), in a nuclear power plant provided learning lessons suggesting requirements for further safety improvement (International Atomic Energy Agency in http://​www.​iaea.​org. Accessed on 12 Apr 2021).
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2. Consciousness
Abstract
The major premise of this chapter is that human factor considerations are critical operational ecosystems, as apart from human‒machine interactions, organizational factors play a major role in achieving organizational safety goals and targets. Most of the existing human reliability modeling procedures have a major focus on cognitive modeling, while direct references to deeper aspects of consciousness are either superficial or not present. In the risk-conscious operations management (RCOM) approach, there is a special consideration for the development of a human model as well as the consideration of consciousness and conscience along with cognition. The premise of risk-conscious culture is that consciousness-associated deeper aspects and their attributes are critical to general human behavior that might lead to random (unintended) human error to address safety implications, while the conscience attribute provides an effective mechanism for intended or deliberate human failures that have security implications.
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3. Dependability Engineering
Abstract
Dependability is the system property that integrates attributes such as reliability, availability, safety, security, survivability and maintainability.
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4. Risk-Conscious Culture
Abstract
Even though the nuclear industry deserves to be complimented to set very high standards of safety, when we look back and review the major contributors to the three accidents, namely, TMI in 1979 (USA), Chernobyl, 1986 (Erstwhile Russian Federation, now Russia and Chernobyl, 2011, Japan), it becomes apparent that human or organizational factors were some of the factors that either caused design issues to these accidents directly or indirectly.
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5. Risk-Based Engineering
Abstract
Risk-based engineering (RBE) provides the basic risk framework for the development of risk-conscious operations management (RCOM).
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6. Risk Simulation
Abstract
Risk simulation for the purpose of risk-conscious operations management addresses modeling and assessing the response of the complex engineering systems to the postulated scenario through a computerized recursive process involving hardware and human failures toward predicting the risk.
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7. Human Factors in Operation
Abstract
Operations management, as mentioned earlier, is an intensive human interaction function that includes, apart from man–machine interactions, interactions among plant staff and other agencies, such as maintenance, fueling crew, engineering services, health safety, higher administration and management, during normal operations in general and emergency conditions.
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8. Operational Risk Management
Abstract
Operational risk management enables plant or system operators to either minimize or mitigate operational risk while optimizing plant performance ("Operational Safety Management," Industrial Software, [Online]. Available: https://​industrial-software.​com/​solutions/​aveva-operational-safety-management/​. Accessed 4 Feb 2022). Conscious efforts to ensure that all risk identification, reduction and correction measures that mainly include surveillance and monitoring, inspections, maintenance/repairs and performance tracking and compliance follow the highest standards of safety. The final responsibility of plant safety rests with the operating organization (International Atomic Energy Agency Strtegies for competitive nuclear power plants, IAEA-TECDOC-1123, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1999a).
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9. Artificial Intelligence Based Approach for Operator Support System
Abstract
The reactor operation ecosystem, from the point of man–machine interaction characteristics, can broadly be divided into two major categories, viz., normal operations and emergency conditions. The immediate response of reactor systems to any undesired initiating event manifests as a transient condition, and depending on the adequacy initial automatic and latter combined automatic and manual action bring back the normal operation of the plant or if not controlled or the mitigative actions are not adequate, then might lead to accident conditions.
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10. Risk-Conscious Maintenance Management
Abstract
In this era of globalization, the importance of maintenance cannot be emphasized more than ever due to one of the otherwise contrasting multiobjective goals that essentially deal with plant reliability-risk, availability-risk, financial-risk, reputation and liability-risk and most important safety-risk. This aspect is directly relevant to all domains, such as nuclear, space, aviation, defense, chemical, and transport, including finance and societal.
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Backmatter
Metadata
Title
Risk-Conscious Operations Management
Author
Prabhakar V. Varde
Copyright Year
2023
Publisher
Springer Nature Singapore
Electronic ISBN
978-981-19-9334-3
Print ISBN
978-981-19-9333-6
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9334-3

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