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Fatality Risk Assessment

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The chapter discusses models for various elements of fatality risk; including occupational fatality risk, immediate fatality risk, risk during escape, evacuation and rescue operations, as well as transportation fatality risk. Finally, diving risk and risk during cessation operations are discussed.

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Vinnem, JE., Røed, W. (2020). Fatality Risk Assessment. In: Offshore Risk Assessment Vol. 1. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7444-8_12

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