The Importance of Human Error and Reliability Management in Critical Conditions and Infrastructures

Antonella Petrillo () and Federico Zomparelli ()
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Antonella Petrillo: University of Napoli “Parthenope”
Federico Zomparelli: University of Cassino and Southern Lazio

A chapter in Human Factors and Reliability Engineering for Safety and Security in Critical Infrastructures, 2018, pp 1-18 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Protection and safeguarding of critical infrastructures (such us chemical industry, oil & gas industry, nuclear industry, etc.) is an important subject of study in the contemporary society. The study of risks associated to critical infrastructure required models of good practice to investigate the complexity of processes in case of accidents. The risk management can be viewed in two ways: human error and system reliability. In other words in terms of human error it is essential to ensure the operator performance to manage a complex system or an unexpected situation. While in terms of system reliability it is essential to ensure that a system is at least as reliable as the system it is replacing. The present chapter aims to analyze the main disasters occurred in critical infrastructures related to human errors or lack of reliability of systems.

Keywords: Human error; Reliability; Disaster; Critical infrastructures; Statistic analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62319-1_1

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