عنوان

Safety and security engineering. VI

1845649281

9781845649289

b586669

Safety and security engineering. VI

[Book]

editors, C.A. Brebbia, F. Garzia, D. Poljak.

Southampton

WIT Press, [

2015]

414 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm.

WIT transactions on the built environment, vol. 151.

ISSN: 1743-3509 (on-line).--Title page verso.Selected conference papers.

ContentsSection 1: Risk analysis, assessment and managementMethods of health risk assessment for human exposure to high frequency electromagnetic fields; Sectional integration of spatial impacts of environmental risks; Occupational hazard prevention and control in a quarry environment: exposure to airborne dust; Designing a risk management framework for forecasting national security issues; Risk assessment of a petroleum product pipeline in Nigeria: the realities of managing problems of theft/sabotage; Whole body vibrations: experimental assessment of anthropometric differences on the effects of WBV exposure in quarry workers; Fire protection of emergency electrical devices: effect on the level of risk - a case study of a rail tunnel; Chemical risks to workers' health in contaminated sites; Evaluation of microshock risk during a surgical procedure Section 2: Critical infrastructure protectionQuantum technology in critical infrastructure protection; Optimization of the operation of a fiber optic interference-based sensor for perimeter protection; Intrusion detection sensors used by electronic security systems for ritical facilities and infrastructures: a reviewSection 3: Emergency responseA review of process safety catastrophes on the Texas Gulf Coast; The role of citizens in emergency management systems in the Czech Republic; Challenges for integrated early warning and disaster management in the UAESection 4: Security surveillance systemsInfrasonic fluidic oscillator for use in anti-terrorist warfare; Early warning system for the prevention and control of unauthorized accesses to air navigation services infrastructures; A biometric iris recognition system based on principal components analysis, genetic algorithms and cosine-distance; Harmless screening of humans for the detection of concealed objectsSection 5: Safety and security: water, wastewater and waste plants(Special session organised by E. C. Rada)Safety and reliability in biogas plants; Reliability analysis and assessment of the explosion risk in a hybrid collector; Water supply systems security: novel technologies for the online monitoring of unforeseeable eventsSection 6: Human factorsAn investigation into HSE educational programs in the USA; Analysis of the relation between safety perception and the degree of civil participation as a tool of sustainable development; Analysis of the human risk factor which affects the reliability and safety of machinery; Oneiric stress and safety and security at work: the discovery of a new universal symbolSection 7: Modelling and experimentsFDS+Evac models and cryogenic and oxygen deficiency emergency management for underground facilities in Gran Sasso National Laboratories; Water jet streams modeling for firefighting activities with the aid of CDF; Over 20 years of research into cybersecurity and safety engineering: a short bibliography; An investigation into the smoldering combustion of paper; Reliability analysis of road safety barriersSection 8: Systems safetyOn the meaning of security for safety (S4S); Smart safety management with ARIADNE SMS: Save Money. Prevent.

Industrial safety -- Congresses.

Risk assessment -- Congresses.

Risk management -- Congresses.

editors, C.A. Brebbia, F. Garzia, D. Poljak.

C A Brebbia

D Poljak

F Garzia

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