Effectiveness Assessment of Adaptation Measures to Build Wildfire Resilience of Road Networks

Wildfires have become a source of concern for society due to the increase in frequency, intensity, and unpredictability. This has caused serious impacts all over the world, even in areas where this type of problem did not occur before. Studies on the adaptation of critical infrastructure have been conducted to reduce the...

Resilience and safety for in-time monitoring, prediction, and mitigation of emergent risks in commercial aviation

Safety in aviation has been historically defined in terms of the occurrence of accidents or recognized risks; that is, safety is typically defined in terms of things that go wrong. An alternative and complementary approach is to focus on what goes right, and identify how to make that happen again. Focusing on the rare cases of failures...

Methodological issues and pitfalls of short safety culture questionnaires

Safety culture surveys have been fielded in many different sectors of industrial activities. Many of these surveys consist of a long list of questions which is time consuming for the respondents. As part of the FP6 HILAS project a shorter survey has been developed, which aimed at getting a high response rate. The survey should give insights into...

State of the practice of offshore inspections vs regulations

Harmonic problems and calculation on offshore platforms

Lifeboat elevated structural analysis