System Safety Engineering and Risk Assessment or Financial Crises Liquidity and the International Monetary System

System Safety Engineering and Risk Assessment: A Practical Approach

Author: Nicholas J Bahr

As technological systems become more complex, it becomes increasingly difficult to identify safety hazards and to control their impact. Engineers today are finding that safety and risk touch upon every aspect of any engineered process, from system design all the way through disposal. Employing highly pragmatic examples from a number of industries, System Safety Engineering and Risk Assessment: A Practical Approach provides a comprehensive and easily accessible guide on how to build safety into products as well as into industrial processes. Using a systems approach, the text discusses the best system safety techniques used in various industries, types of hazard analyses, safety checklists and other safety tools, as well as techniques for investigating accidents. It explains how to set up a data management system for a system safety program, and delves into risk assessment, including ways to conduct a risk evaluation. While the book provides engineers with an efficient reference in a critical area, the clarity of the writing along with the case studies and illustrations makes this book accessible to non-technical professionals needing a how to guide for the safety management of complex systems. It is also used by graduate classes involved with ergonomics and occupational safety as well as engineering.

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Using a systems approach, offers engineers a comprehensive, practical guide to building safety into products and industrial processes. Discusses the best system safety techniques used in various industries; types of hazard analyses; safety checklists and other safety tools; techniques for investigating accidents; techniques for setting up a data management system for a system safety program; risk assessment; and ways to conduct a risk evaluation. Includes a generic hazard checklist and a generic facility safety checklist. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	Definitions and Concepts	5
3	Safety Analysis in Engineering - How is it Used?	23
4	Safety Management	31
5	Hazard Analysis	71
6	Process Safety Analysis	109
7	Fault Tree Analysis	127
8	FMECA, Human Factors, and Software Safety	145
9	Other Techniques	169
10	Data Sources and Training	181
11	Accident Reporting, Investigation, and Documentation	191
12	Risk Assessment	201
13	Risk Evaluation	211
	Appendixes	233
A	Typical Energy Sources	233
B	Generic Hazard Checklist	235
C	Generic Facility Safety Checklist	239
D	Internet Sources	245
	Index	247

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Financial Crises, Liquidity, and the International Monetary System

Author: Jean Tirol

Once upon a time, economists saw capital account liberalization--the free and unrestricted flow of capital in and out of countries--as unambiguously good. Good for debtor states, good for the world economy. No longer. Spectacular banking and currency crises in recent decades--from Latin America in the early 1980s to Scandinavia a decade later to Mexico, Southeast Asia, Russia, and, quite lately, Argentina--have shattered the consensus. In this remarkably clear and pithy volume, one of Europe's leading economists examines these crises, the reforms being undertaken to prevent them, and how global financial institutions might be restructured to this end.

Jean Tirole first analyzes the current views on the crises and on the reform of the international financial architecture. Reform proposals often treat the symptoms rather than the fundamentals, he argues, and sometimes fail to reconcile the objectives of setting effective financing conditions while ensuring that a country "owns" its reform program. A proper identification of market failures is essential to reformulating the mission of an institution such as the IMF, he emphasizes. Next he adapts the basic principles of corporate governance, liquidity provision, and risk management of corporations to the particulars of country borrowing. Building on a "dual- and common-agency perspective," he revisits commonly advocated policies and considers how multilateral organizations can help debtor countries reap enhanced benefits while liberalizing their capital accounts.

Based on the Paolo Baffi Lecture the author delivered at the Bank of Italy, this refreshingly accessible book is teeming with rich insights that researchers, policymakers,and students at all levels will find indispensable.