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Safety Risk Management in Complex Systems

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Industrial Engineering in the Internet-of-Things World (GJCIE 2020)

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Risk management has been applied in a wide range of industries to ensure safety by using risk management tools and techniques. Many of those techniques were developed long ago to analyze individual system components. In complex systems, however, accidents emerge from system interactions. Hence, traditional risk management tools and techniques have become inadequate to analyze risks in complex systems. The Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) was recently developed to address the limitations of traditional risk management methods. This study provides an example of the use of FRAM to demonstrate its use and to highlight its potential value in safety risk management.

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This work was supported by the Research Fund of the İstanbul Medeniyet University. Project number: 1695.

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Kaya, G.K. (2022). Safety Risk Management in Complex Systems. In: Calisir, F. (eds) Industrial Engineering in the Internet-of-Things World. GJCIE 2020. Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76724-2_1

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