- Title
- Life-safety risks and optimisation of protective measures against terrorist threats to infrastructure
- Creator
- Stewart, Mark G.
- Relation
- Structure and Infrastructure Engineering: Maintenance, Management, Life-Cycle Design & Performance Vol. 7, Issue 6, p. 431-440
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15732470902726023
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- A decision support analysis considers fatality risks and cost-effectiveness of protective measures, expressed in terms of expected cost spent on risk reduction per life saved for terrorist threats to infrastructure. The analysis is applicable to any item of infrastructure, but in this paper, it is applied to commercial buildings in the US. Risks may be compared with risk acceptance criteria in the form of quantitative safety goals. The risk acceptability and cost-effectiveness of protective measures includes cost of the protective measures, attack probability, reduction in risk due to protective measures, probability of fatality conditional on successful terrorist attack and number of exposed individuals. The risk-based approach developed herein provides a means for initial risk screening based on the broad levels of risk and its acceptability.
- Subject
- risk; terrorism; cost-benefit; safety; buildings; decision-making
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1066559
- Identifier
- uon:18150
- Identifier
- ISSN:1573-2479
- Language
- eng
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