Risk Handbook
Published on 8. August 1996
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-412-62750-7 (ISBN)
Description
Risks cannot be avoided, but successful ways of dealing with them can be developed. This handbook provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary coverage for assessing the acceptability of risks. The text examines the practical methods for assessing risk and the theoretical considerations in some detail. It unifies the pragmatic and scientific approach to risk to provide a defensible approach to risk assessment and management. The appendices also include a guide for managers to the mathematics involved.
Risks cannot be avoided, but successful ways of dealing with them can be developed. This handbook provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary coverage for assessing the acceptability of risks. The text examines the practical methods for assessing risk and the theoretical considerations in some detail. It unifies the pragmatic and scientific approach to risk to provide a defensible approach to risk assessment and management. The appendices also include a guide for managers to the mathematics involved.
Risks cannot be avoided, but successful ways of dealing with them can be developed. This handbook provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary coverage for assessing the acceptability of risks. The text examines the practical methods for assessing risk and the theoretical considerations in some detail. It unifies the pragmatic and scientific approach to risk to provide a defensible approach to risk assessment and management. The appendices also include a guide for managers to the mathematics involved.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
50 line illustrations, index
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-412-62750-7 (9780412627507)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
1. Introduction 2. Risk Acceptability Decision Making 3. Real Working Environment Risks 4. Risks in the Public Environment 5. Assess the True Cost of Risk 6. The Special Character of Business Risks 7. The Insurance of Risks 8. Forms of Risk Management. Glossary. Further Reading. Appendix I: Required Mathematics. Appendix II: Vital Assessment Methodologies. Appendix III: Hazardous Properties of Chemicals and their Evaluation. Appendix IV: Radiation Risks. Appendix V: Risk Data and Computer Programs Available.