Overview
- Presents a timely, up-to-date review of human factors in reliability
- Includes numerous case studies on safety from industrial plants worldwide
- Discusses the complexity of reliability management in industry and the infrastructure critical to society
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering (RELIABILITY)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book collects a high-quality selection of contemporary research and case studies on the complexity resulting from human/reliability management in industrial plants and critical infrastructures. It includes:
- Human-error management issues—considering how to reduce human errors as much as possible.
- Reliability management issues—considering the ability of a system or component to function under certain conditions for a specified period of time.
Thus, the book analyses globally the problem regarding the human and reliability management to reduce human errors as much as possible and to ensure safety and security in critical infrastructures.
Accidents continue to be the major concern in “critical infrastructures”, and human factors have been proved to be the prime causes to accidents. Clearly, human dynamics are a challenging management function to guarantee reliability, safety and costs reduction in critical infrastructures.
The book is enriched by figures, examples and extensive case studies and is a valuable reference resource for those with involved in disaster and emergency planning as well as researchers interested both in theoretical and practical aspects.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. Fabio De Felice holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently a professor at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy and a board member of several international organizations. He has pursued research on various problems concerning industrial plant engineering, ranging from the improvement of quality in productive processes, the simulation of industrial plants and support in multi-criteria techniques and decisions (analytic hierarchy process, analytic network process), to RAMS analysis and human reliability analysis.
Prof. Antonella Petrillo holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and received her PhD at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy. She is currently a researcher at the University of Naples “Parthenope” (Department of Engineering), Italy where she conducts research on multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA), industrial plants, logistics and safety.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Factors and Reliability Engineering for Safety and Security in Critical Infrastructures
Book Subtitle: Decision Making, Theory, and Practice
Editors: Fabio De Felice, Antonella Petrillo
Series Title: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62319-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62318-4Published: 11 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87289-6Published: 18 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62319-1Published: 29 September 2017
Series ISSN: 1614-7839
Series E-ISSN: 2196-999X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 258
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Mechanical Engineering, Operations Research/Decision Theory