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The purpose of this Master’s thesis was to investigate which factors influence the size of loss, insured by If, that occurred as a result of fire or explosion. Further on, this information shall be implemented at If to gain a better understanding towards risk. This to facilitate the assessment of insurance premium and reinsurance requirement.
This report contains a mapping of the different types of goods imported into Sweden by air during 2004. The process of the collection of statistical data resulted in a model. The model was developed with the purpose to make future updates easier and more accurate. Finally, the report contains a vulnerability analysis for the supply chain of pharmaceuticals in Sweden. The role of aviation was taken
The base of the work is the standard IEC 61511 “Functional Safety – Safety Instrumented Systems for the Process Industry Sector”. Developing a method for Hydro Polymers to decide a suitable Safety Integrity Level, SIL, for the safety instrumented system is the purpose of this thesis project. Assigning a SIL to the process is one way to handle the risk assessment and make the process adequately saf
The producing of safe products is very important for the food industry today due to increasing awareness of the consumers and competition in the market. To reduce the risk of pathogenic bacteria in the food industry a structured decision analysis is needed. The purpose of the thesis is to investigate which hazardous events that have occurred in the food industry, in which way these events best are
The aim of the thesis is to present a framework for risk management at Trelleborg AB. In doing that a literature study concerning what constitutes good risk management has been performed. Several useful guidelines for how good risk management should be conducted were identified. Risk management documents at Trelleborg were evaluated using these guidelines. Furthermore, complementary interviews wit
This report evaluates USAR (urban search and rescue) search methods and technical equipment that are in use today by international USAR teams. In addition, improvements to both the search equipment and methods and to USAR in general are considered.
This master thesis presents a framework, aimed at assessing fire risk in large automated warehouses. The International Electrotechnical Commission’s (IEC) framework, Risk analysis of technological systems, provides the base, as to the functions of a risk analysis framework and this is subsequently adopted and expanded to better suit the fire risk analysis in high-bay warehouses. The framework pres
The purpose with this master thesis has been to reduce the number of accidents and incidents related to spillage and discharge of product. This has been done by assessing the safety culture and strategies have been proposed on how to act upon the shortcomings that have been revealed in the assessment. An adjusted model has been developed for the assessment of the safety culture. The adjusted model
This thesis estimates the risk of the activity at the oil depot in Örfirisey and its location, to its nearby population. The thesis will consider possible risks from the oil depot it self in case of fire, today, in relation to health and safety. Transportation of the fuel from the depot through the city will be discussed in an attempt to see if other depot locations or strategies can lessen the ri
The aim of this project is to investigate the requirements of intern audit of fire safety management systems. The project started out with a literature survey followed by a case study at the warehouse Gekås in Ullared, Sweden. As a complement to the literature survey, representatives from a couple of different Swedish municipalities were interviewed. The goal with the case study was to find out wh
This thesis treats the area of Business Continuity Planning (BCP), which is one way to decrease the vulnerability in an organization. The main objective was to investigate how the business benefit of BCP could be measured in monetary terms. The aim of this investigation was the development of a general and practically usable framework. The framework was developed in a deductive way by combining th
This graduation project examines to study how analysis of different fire protection attributes shall be carried out using technological trade-offs. The purpose of this report is to develop guidance for engineers to verify technological trade-offs, and therefore make a more reliable verification. The report shows that safety levels of fire protection as multidimensional. Therefore, several system
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate whether the risk attitudes of experts in risk management, i.e. the group of experts participating in the study made by Abrahamsson and Johansson (2006), comply with the preferences of the general public. A major focus of the thesis is the development of the experimental setup, which is based on the trade off method developed by Wakker and Deneffe (1996)
On offshore installations for oil- and gas exploration, fire-water deluge systems are often installed to mitigate the effect in case of fires. Recent research has shown that the deluge can also be used to mitigate explosion consequences by activating deluge on gas detection. The effect of deluge on the explosion risk is however very complex and could in some cases lead to increased explosion risk
Events such as a storm that hit Sweden in 2005 and caused considerable damage led to a number of new additions in the Swedish Electricity Act. Some of these additions were demands on power distribution companies on a risk and vulnerability analysis and an action plan concerning the reliability of delivery in distribution networks, and also on keeping its customers informed about this. The aim of t
The objective of this master’s thesis has been to develop a model for valuation and comparison be- tween SCA plants with reference to fire loss prevention work. The aim of this report has been ful- filled by analysing results from literature studies, interviews and questionnaires answered by per- sons experienced within fire loss prevention work and paper industry. The report resulted in a Loss Pr
The purpose of this report is to investigate the preparedness planning concerning pandemics on different levels of the society but with focus on the municipal level. The study was funded by the city of Malmö and hence the proposal is based on the city ́s organization. The methodology used was interviews, a questionnaire and vulnerability analysis. The analysis resulted in guidelines for the prepar
The purpose of this master thesis was to provide reliable information to improve off-piste skiers’ knowledge, behaviour and risk management. This since research concerning human factors in the field of avalanches traditionally had been paid little attention. A literature review covering avalanche, traffic and risk literature and two surveys which gathered approximately 2000 responses were conducte
Capacity development projects must be based on a thorough understanding of the situation within the subject country. However, the assessment phase is a very complex process and should cover a great number of aspects that both in time and space could affect the outcome of a triggering event. This project tries to identify what general aspects that could affect a country’s Disaster Management Capaci
The aim of this master thesis is both to investigate how risk analyses in the layout design phase of railway tunnel projects today are done and to advise how the safety thinking of complex infrastructures could be improved in the future. The thesis is based on case studies of three Swedish railway tunnel projects in Göteborg, Malmö and Stockholm. The thesis is limited to examine sudden risk scenar
