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Safety
Safety refers to the ability of the automotive HMI system to suppress driver distraction and enhance driving safety while the driver is performing...
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Safety Culture
Safety factors are important dimensions of a safety culture, such as effective communications or safety awareness.
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System Safety
System Safety of Vehicles (SSV) aims to identify potential hazards of the whole vehicle, components, and algorithms with the application of relevant...
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Driving Safety
Driving safety of vehicle (DSV) refers to the realization of IV safety decision and control by means of quantitative evaluation and prediction over...
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Water Safety Planning
Water safety plans are an effective overarching management approach for ensuring the safety of a drinking-water supply. Water safety plans are...
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Structural Safety
In 1963 my Master’s Thesis at M.I.T was “Structural Safety and Reliability”. It follows that several of the topics covered in the Thesis (3) are also...
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Subcontracting Safety (Cases)
Companies operating high-hazard installations in the process industry call upon consultants to provide safety-related expertise. They do so...
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Contextualizing (Safety) Rules
This introductory chapter combines several dimensions which are meant to help frame a complex topic representing a very rich diversity of situations...
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Functional Safety
Functional safety is a subset of system safety in which active measures are sought to ensure the safety of a system. Typically, functional safety...
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Safety and Subcontracting
The aim of this introductory chapter is to provide a description of the evolving operating landscape of safety-critical systems (e.g. aviation,...
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Visualising for Safety or Visualisation of Safety?
This chapter considers whether it is possible to visualise safety as a word, a construct, or a concept. It analyses both the instrumental approach of...
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Visualising Safety
Safety research and practice has struggled with how to describe, define and represent safety in order to improve understanding or to communicate its...
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Leading Indicators of Safety
The purpose of a leading indicators programme is to identify which safety metrics are most strongly associated with safety performance in a...
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Safety Initiatives in Support of Safety Culture Development: Examples from Four Mining Organisations
Having seen significant improvements to accident rates in the last 40 years, companies in the Swedish mining industry now show a greater focus on the...
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Safety Engineering
Gaseous substances that spread in the ambient air can cause different effects that affect both people and buildings/facilities. Safety engineering is...
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System Safety
System safety is a well-researched field with well-established terminology. To be able to correctly design for safety, we need to understand hazards...
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Safety
This chapter outlines the main safetySafety features of a cruise ship, including structural fire protection, main vertical zones (MVZ), active fire...
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System Safety Process
Including safety in all phases of a system development project is required to ensure an inherent view of safety, designing all safety prescriptions...
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The Intelligent Safety of Automobile
The book expounds the current research and development trend of intelligent safety technology of automobile, and analyzes and excavates the new...
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Reliability assessment of emergency safety barriers based on an intuitionistic fuzzy sets aggregation procedure and subjective safety analysis: a case study
The Emergency safety barrier is one of the active technical barriers related to the safety of liquefied petroleum gas storage tanks. However, this...
