Safety and Security Engineering VI
Published on 6. May 2015
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-1-84564-928-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book contains the proceedings of the sixth in a series of interdisciplinary conferences on safety and security engineering. The papers from the biennial conference, first held in 2005, include the work of engineers, scientists, field researchers, managers and other specialists involved in one or more aspects of safety and security.The papers presented cover areas such as: Risk Analysis, Assessment and Management; Critical Infrastructure Protection; Emergency Response; Security Surveillance Systems; Safety and Security - Water, Wastewater and Waste Plants; Human Factors; Modelling and Experiments; Systems Safety.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Southampton
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84564-928-9 (9781845649289)
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Content
ContentsSection 1: Risk analysis, assessment and managementMethods of health risk assessment for human exposure to high frequency electromagnetic fields; Sectional integration of spatial impacts of environmental risks; Occupational hazard prevention and control in a quarry environment: exposure to airborne dust; Designing a risk management framework for forecasting national security issues; Risk assessment of a petroleum product pipeline in Nigeria: the realities of managing problems of theft/sabotage; Whole body vibrations: experimental assessment of anthropometric differences on the effects of WBV exposure in quarry workers; Fire protection of emergency electrical devices: effect on the level of risk - a case study of a rail tunnel; Chemical risks to workers' health in contaminated sites; Evaluation of microshock risk during a surgical procedure Section 2: Critical infrastructure protectionQuantum technology in critical infrastructure protection; Optimization of the operation of a fiber optic interference-based sensor for perimeter protection; Intrusion detection sensors used by electronic security systems for ritical facilities and infrastructures: a reviewSection 3: Emergency responseA review of process safety catastrophes on the Texas Gulf Coast; The role of citizens in emergency management systems in the Czech Republic; Challenges for integrated early warning and disaster management in the UAESection 4: Security surveillance systemsInfrasonic fluidic oscillator for use in anti-terrorist warfare; Early warning system for the prevention and control of unauthorized accesses to air navigation services infrastructures; A biometric iris recognition system based on principal components analysis, genetic algorithms and cosine-distance; Harmless screening of humans for the detection of concealed objectsSection 5: Safety and security: water, wastewater and waste plants(Special session organised by E. C. Rada)Safety and reliability in biogas plants; Reliability analysis and assessment of the explosion risk in a hybrid collector; Water supply systems security: novel technologies for the online monitoring of unforeseeable eventsSection 6: Human factorsAn investigation into HSE educational programs in the USA; Analysis of the relation between safety perception and the degree of civil participation as a tool of sustainable development; Analysis of the human risk factor which affects the reliability and safety of machinery; Oneiric stress and safety and security at work: the discovery of a new universal symbolSection 7: Modelling and experimentsFDS+Evac models and cryogenic and oxygen deficiency emergency management for underground facilities in Gran Sasso National Laboratories; Water jet streams modeling for firefighting activities with the aid of CDF; Over 20 years of research into cybersecurity and safety engineering: a short bibliography; An investigation into the smoldering combustion of paper; Reliability analysis of road safety barriersSection 8: Systems safetyOn the meaning of security for safety (S4S); Smart safety management with ARIADNE SMS: Save Money. Prevent.