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Use of Risk Indicators for Major Hazard Risk

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This chapter starts with a general discussion on the indicators of major hazard risk, followed by a discussion of the Risk Level project by PSA in Norway and the lessons learned from this project with respect to major hazard risk indicators. The final part discusses how major hazard risk indicators should be used by individual companies and installations, in order to control major hazard risk.

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    2011 was the last year with available detailed data at the time of the manuscript preparation, 2017 is the last year with available overall data.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Jan-Erik Vinnem

  2. Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway

    Willy Røed

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Vinnem, JE., Røed, W. (2020). Use of Risk Indicators for Major Hazard Risk. In: Offshore Risk Assessment Vol. 2. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7448-6_23

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