Predicting and Preventing the Unwanted
Table 5.2 contains a classification of non-energy Threats, some examples of which are given here. Case Non-energy Threat type Outcome process involves.. A bank was fined after one of its precious metals traders manipulated the price of gold in order to…
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While there is nothing particularly complicated about identifying which energy form is involved in any case of injury or damage, it is helpful to see the idea applied to various cases. The definition of the energy form needs to be held in…
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This table is based on the same cases that are used in the accompanying article on Energy Damage and Space Transfer Mechanisms. If one has more information than the bare facts of the cases listed below mostly provide, it is…
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John Bradley was a retired flight test engineer with a long career in the flight testing of military aircraft at what was the A&AEE at Boscombe Down in England. On his retirement he wrote of his experiences in At the Edge…
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Table 4.2 shows the Risk estimation calculation from Figure 4.4. Unfortunately, in the process of figure production the location of the string of hypothetical data points on the figure moved and this was not noticed during the reads of the draft…
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“I… have just finished reading your new book entitled Occupational Risk Control. It is an excellent, well-researched and logical publication and I really enjoyed: · Critique of accident theory and the Heinrich cause-effect relationship · Limitations of the risk matrix…
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Professor Brian Cox, a British physicist, has become famous for his popular interpretations of physics for the lay person on television and radio. In the BBC programme Wonders of the Universe he observed that our experience (in our observations of the universe)…
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Something in a BBC news report on this derailment caught my eye – the statement made to the media by Amtrak management: Amtrak boss Joseph Boardman said on Thursday that the agency’s goal is to “fully understand what happened and…
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Consider the Concorde crash of 25th July, 2000. The aircraft hit metal debris left on the runway by a preceding aircraft, a tyre burst and rubber fragment(s) punctured the wing skin leading to a fuel leak. The fuel was ignited…
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