TY - BOOK AU - Andonov,Sasho TI - Safety Accidents in Risky Industries: black swans, gray rhinos and other adverse events SN - 9781032136493 AV - T55 .A552 2022 U1 - 363.11 23 PY - 2022/// CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press KW - Industrial safety KW - Industrial accidents N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; "This text introduces bad events (incidents and accidents) named as metaphors. The metaphors, called as "safety animals" are named as black swan, gray rhino, gray swans, and invisible gorilla. The book analyzes incidents and accidents from the context of the safety management system in the risky industries including aviation, nuclear, chemical, oil, and petroleum. It further uses mathematical analysis of these events (through statistics and probabilities) and presents preventive and corrective measures in dealing the same. It comprehensively covers important topics including real-time monitoring, reverse stress testing, change management, predictive maintenance, management system, contingency plans, human factors, behavioral safety, anticipatory failure determination, resilience engineering (RE), resilience management (RM), swiss cheese model and probability distribution"-- ER -