| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/K15077/01 |
| Title: |
LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT TO AVOID TECHNOLOGICAL FAILURE |
| Principal Investigator: |
Blockley, Professor D |
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| Department: |
Civil Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Bristol |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 September 1994 |
Ends: |
31 August 1997 |
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120,688
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| Construction Ops & Management |
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Work related accidents costs the UK around 10bn per year. The safe management of technological projects is clearly important, economically, technically and culturally. There are two closely linked elements to this proposal. The first is concerned with managing to avoid failure of physical integrity and accidents to humans. This involves the development of a systems approach to hazard auditing as a tool for hazard management at the social-technical interface. It is developing the concept of hazard engineering which connects the technical and the human when hazard is interpreted very broadly as 'the set of preconditions to failure'. The second element is to broaden the perspective of failure to cover many other forms including commercial failure. In this respect, the project is concerned with the more context of management of technology to explicitly encompass features of safety, quality and commercial viability. It is proposed to develop a generic model or structure that can be used in the design, monitoring and effective implementation of an integrated management system for technology.
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http://www.bris.ac.uk |