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Safety-barrier diagrams as a safety management tool

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  • Duijm, Nijs Jan

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Safety-barrier diagrams and “bow-tie†diagrams have become popular methods in risk analysis and safety management. This paper describes the syntax and principles for constructing consistent and valid safety-barrier diagrams. The latter's relation to other methods such as fault trees and Bayesian Networks is discussed. Important advantages of safety-barrier diagrams as compared to other graphical risk-analysis methods are, firstly, the relative simplicity that supports communication with non-expert stakeholders and, secondly, the focus on deliberately inserted safety systems that supports the management and maintenance of these systems. Safety-barrier diagrams provide a useful framework for an electronic data structure that integrates information from risk analysis with operational safety management.

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  • Duijm, Nijs Jan, 2009. "Safety-barrier diagrams as a safety management tool," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 94(2), pages 332-341.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:reensy:v:94:y:2009:i:2:p:332-341
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2008.03.031
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