Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) is a method of estimating system reliability by combining logic models of the ways systems can fail with numerical failure rates. One postulates a failure state and systematically decomposes this state into a combination of more basic events through a process known as Fault Tree Analysis (FTA). Failure rates are derived from vendor specifications, historical ...

Predicting and analyzing employee safety decision-making is an important component of managing safety in the workplace. This presentation will discuss the process of transforming existing safety decisionmaking data into an event tree pathway. Event tree analysis methodology is utilized to identify contributing factors in complex systems, illustrate interrelationships of the causes of specified ...

Background and Purpose: Survival tree model is a nonparametric method which can be used to identify the affecting factors from a specific time to the onset of an event. In this method, the categories are selected according to the most important factors. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting the duration of breastfeeding in mothers and introduce the homogeneous subgrou...

Truncation is a term, which defines cutting off the negligible contribution of the results of the fault tree/event tree analysis, when evaluating complex facilities. This paper shows that consideration of requirements from Probabilistic Risk Assessment Procedures Guide at the largest acceptable truncation may lead to more than 40% differences from the results with no truncation at results for F...

The paper illustrates how event tree diagrams, used in safety engineering, can be applied to test the design of a healthcare service. Event tree diagrams can be employed to inform quantitative approaches to quality, by providing justification with respect to safety, of operational aspects to be monitored and measured.