Acronyms - Risk Assessment
Acronyms
This page defines acronyms used in the book Risk Assessment; Theory, Methods, and Applications
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- AEMA - Action error mode analysis
- AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers
- ALARA - As low as reasonably achievable
- ALARP- As low as reasonably practicable
- API - American Petroleum Institute
- ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- BBN - Bayesian belief network
- BLEVE - Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion
- BORA - Barrier and operational risk analysis
- BPCS - Basic Process Control System
- CAF - Cost of averting a fatality
- CBA - Cost-benefit analysis
- CCF - Common cause failure
- CCPS - Center for Chemical Process Safety
- CM - Corrective maintenance
- CPT - Conditional probability table
- DD - Dangerous detected (failure)
- DU - Dangerous undetected (failure)
- EFBA - Energy flow/barrier analysis
- EN - European norm (standard)
- EPA - U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
- EPRI - Electric Power Research Institute
- ESD - Emergency shutdown
- ESDV - Emergency shutdown valve
- ESP - Electronic stability program (in cars)
- ETA - Event tree analysis
- ETBA - Energy trace/barrier analysis
- EU - European Union
- EUC - Equipment under control
- FAR - Fatal accident rate
- FMEA - Failure modes and effects analysis
- FMECA - Failure modes, effects, and criticality analysis
- F-N - Frequency--number of fatalities
- FRACAS - Failure reporting analysis and corrective action system
- FSA- Formal safety assessment
- FTA - Fault tree analysis
- FTF - Fail to function
- GAMAB - Globalement au moins aussi bon
- GAME - Globalement au moins équivalent
- GCAF - Gross cost of averting a fatality
- GIDEP - Government Industry Data Exchange Program
- HAZID - Hazard identification
- HAZOP - Hazard and operability study
- HEART - Human error analysis and reduction technique
- HEP - Human error probability
- HMSO - Her Majesty's Stationary Office
- HPP - Homogeneous Poisson process
- HRA - Human reliability analysis
- HTA - Hierarchical task analysis
- HSE - Health, safety, and environment
- HSE - Health and Safety Executive (UK)
- HSWA - Health and safety at work act (UK)
- IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency
- ICAF - Implied cost of averting a fatality
- ICAO - International Civil Aviation Organization
- IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission
- IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
- IMO - International Maritime Organization
- IPL - Independent protection layer
- IR -Individual risk
- IRPA - Individual risk per annum
- ISO - International Organization for Standardization
- JSA - Job safety analysis
- LCC - Life cycle cost
- LOC - Loss of containment
- LOPA - Layer of protection analysis
- LTA - Less than adequate
- LTI - Lost time incident
- MARS - Major Accident Reporting System
- MHIDAS - Major Hazard Incident Analysis System
- MDT - Mean downtime
- MEM - Minimum endogenous mortality
- MLE - Maximum likelihood estimator
- MMS - Mineral Management Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior
- MORT - Management Oversight and Risk Tree
- MTBF - Mean time between failures
- MTTF - Mean time to failure
- MTTR - Mean time to repair
- NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NEA - Nuclear Energy Agency
- NOAEL - No observed adverse effect level
- NRC - Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- NUREG - Title of reports from U.S. NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
- OREDA - Offshore Reliability Data
- OSHA - Occupational Safety and Health Administration (U.S.A.)
- PFD - Probability of failure on demand
- PHA - Preliminary hazard analysis
- P\&ID - Piping and instrumentation diagram
- PM - Preventive maintenance
- POB - People on board
- PRA - Probabilistic risk assessment
- PSA - Probabilistic safety assessment
- PSF - Performance shaping factor
- QRA - Quantitative risk analysis (or assessment)
- RAM - Reliability, availability, and maintainability
- RAMS - Reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety
- RBD - Reliability block diagram
- RBDM - Risk-based decision making
- RCM - Reliability centered maintenance
- RIAC - Reliability Information Analysis Center, U.S. Department of Defense
- RIDM - Risk informed decision making
- RIF - Risk influencing factor
- ROCOF - Rate of occurrence of failures
- SAE - Engineering Society for Advancing Mobility in Land Sea Air and Space
- SAR - Search and rescue
- SFAIRP - So far as is reasonably practicable
- SHE - Safety, health, and environment
- SIF - Safety instrumented function
- SIL - Safety integrity level
- SIS - Safety instrumented system
- SLIM - Success likelihood index method
- SMS - Safety management system
- SWIFT - Structured what if technique
- THERP - Technique for human error rate prediction
- UK - United Kingdom
- USCG - U.S. Coast Guard
- VPF - Value of preventing a fatality
- VROM - Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment - The Netherlands
- WOAD - World Offshore Accident Data
