Online Training Centre Opens You’ve been challenged to start doing risk assessments on your machine designs, but you don’t know where to start. Perhaps you’ve bought a few standards or a book or two, hoping to figure it all out, but you never seem to be able to stay focused long enough to get what…
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Apologies Just a quick note to all our readers to explain the outages we’ve been having. First, I apologize for the downtime and sporadic outages you’ve probably experienced. We tried and failed to avoid those issues, but we think everything is sorted out now. Moving house is never easy We outgrew the capabilities of our…
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Read MoreReflections on Fukushima
The Lessons from Fukushima It’s now almost three months since the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan’s northeast coast on 11-March. Recently, IEEE Spectrum’s Eliza Strickland interviewed Tsuneo Futami, Superintendent of the Fukushima Dai Ichi plant from 1997 to 2000, on the events at Fukushima following the tsunami… Futami: … TEPCO’s civil engineering group estimates the…
Read MoreThe Problem with Probability
Risk Factors When risk is analyzed, at least in the industrial sector, we usually follow a process defined in ISO 12100. This approach defines two broad parameters, severity and probability, and then further subdivides probability into sub-parameters that are helpful for analyzing machinery hazards. This post explores the difficulty with assessing the probability parameter. If…
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