A hierarchical approach to loss prevention

意外损失可能发生在四个主要领域：人员、财产(或资产)、过程(或生产)和环境。控制此类损失对企业和政府机构的不间断运营至关重要。通过认识到这些事实，管理者可以使自己处于更好的地位，既可以预防事故，也可以处理事故的后果。可以采取旨在预防和缓解的降低风险措施，以应对气体、粉尘和混合混合物爆炸等危险。这些措施包括适当的固有、工程(被动和主动)和程序方面的考虑。按照前一句话的顺序，降低风险的措施形成了从最有效到最不有效的控制等级。 我的研究计划旨在通过仔细的实验、建模和分析工具开发相结合的方式来解决这些工业安全问题。简而言之，我的研究计划的长期目标是为提高工业安全提供严格、经过验证的工程方法。我工作的主要动机是保护任何商业活动中最重要的元素--人。 这项赠款申请中提出的研究分为四个主题；三个对应于固有安全、工程安全和程序安全的层级，第四个涉及将这些层级减少风险措施联系在一起的总体框架。注重控制的层级意味着研究的目的首先是消除或避免工业危害，通过工程化和程序化的手段完成剩余风险管理。研究成果包括实验数据和相应的模型预测，以及用于工艺设计修改和安全措施设计的分析工具。

Accidental loss can occur in four main areas: people, property (or assets), process (or production), and environment. The control of such loss is critical to the uninterrupted operation of businesses and government organizations. By recognizing these facts, managers can place themselves in a better position to both prevent accidents and deal with their consequences. Risk reduction measures aimed at prevention and mitigation can be put in place to deal with hazards such as gas, dust and hybrid mixture explosions. These measures consist of appropriate inherent, engineered (passive and active), and procedural considerations. Risk reduction measures, when ordered as in the previous sentence, form a hierarchy of controls ranging from most to least effective. My research program aims to address these issues of industrial safety through a combination of careful experimentation, modeling, and analytical tool development. Simply put, the long-term goal of my research program is to provide rigorous, validated engineering methodologies for the enhancement of industrial safety. The primary motivation in my work is the protection of the most important element of any business - people. The research proposed in this grant application is grouped under four themes; three correspond to the hierarchy levels of inherent safety, engineered safety and procedural safety, with the fourth addressing an overall framework linking these hierarchical risk reduction measures. Focus on the hierarchy of controls means that the research is aimed at the elimination or avoidance of industrial hazards in the first instance, with residual risk management being accomplished through engineered and procedural means. The research outcomes include experimental data with corresponding model predictions, as well as analytical tools for process design modification and safety measure design.