2. Challenges and developments in operational safety
2.1 The challenges of dependability
For several decades, operational safety has been defined as the science of failures. However, in order to reduce risks to a level as low as possible and acceptable to public opinion, new scientific methods, techniques and tools have been developed to assess potential risks, predict the occurrence of failures and attempt to minimize the consequences of catastrophic situations when they do occur. Dependability is known by the acronym RAMS (reliability, availability, maintainability and safety). Other industry names use the term "risk analysis" (in the oil industry) and cyndinics for the science of danger. Together, these scientific methodological developments form the discipline of operational safety. In the broadest sense of the term, operational...
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HBM PRENSCIA 20016, ReliaSoft Synthesis Master Suite
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...Websites
INERIS (French National Institute for the Industrial Environment and Risks)
ADEME (French Environment and Energy Management Agency)
CEPR (European Center for Risk Prevention)
...Standards and norms
- Maintenance – Maintenance terminology - NF EN 13306 - 2018
- Value management – Vocabulary – Terms and definitions - NF EN 1325 - 2014
- Value-based management – Functional expression of needs and functional specifications – Requirements for expressing and validating the need to be met in the process of acquiring or obtaining a product - NF EN 16271 - 2013
- Value-based management – Life cycle cost of...
Regulations
Decree no. 2001-1016 of the Labor Code instituting the employer's obligation (article L. 4121-2 modified by law no. 2016-1088 of August 8, 2016 – article 5
Circular of May 10, 2010 summarizing the methodological rules applicable to hazard studies
Article L. 511-1 concerning provisions (amended by order no. 2011-91 of January 20, 2011 – article 6)
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Institut national de l'environnement industriel et des risques (INERIS) : https://www.ineris.fr/fr
Institute for Risk Management (IMDR) : https://www.imdr.eu/
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