Integration of Resilience and FRAM for Safety Management
Publication: ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering
Volume 6, Issue 2
Abstract
Resilience is a concept that can be used to bring additional understanding to safety management, to complement traditional approaches. The additional understanding will enable more-informed safety management decisions to be made by operators. This is critical for operations in remote and hash environments. The concepts of resilience, such as robustness and rapidity, can be used to inform safety management decisions. A methodology was presented that uses quantitative techniques of system performance measurement and qualitative understanding of functional execution from the functional resonance analysis method (FRAM) to gain an understanding of these resilience concepts. Examples of robustness and rapidity using this methodology were illustrated, and how they can help operators manage their operation was discussed.
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The financial support of the Lloyd’s Register Foundation is acknowledged with gratitude. Lloyd’s Register Foundation helps to protect life and property by supporting engineering-related education, public engagement, and the application of research.
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ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering
Volume 6 • Issue 2 • June 2020
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Received: Dec 4, 2017
Accepted: Aug 12, 2019
Published online: Jan 22, 2020
Published in print: Jun 1, 2020
Discussion open until: Jun 22, 2020
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