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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
The aim of this master thesis is to coordinate risk management for process facilities. This has been done through several inventories concerning process facilities and their ability to coordinate risk management regarding Safety, Health and Environment. The inventories along with literature studies have resulted in a framework for coordination of SHE for risk management in process facilities. An e
The purpose of this thesis is to create a framework for risk and vulnerability analysis on a societal level, meant to be used by Swedish municipalities to produce decision basis in risk- oriented issues. The framework is based on three major principles; a systems approach to risk and vulnerability management, regulation analysis according to Swedish legislation and evaluation principles for risk m
The report aims at quantifying vulnerability of lakes by multiple linear regression, in which transparency of the water is used as a proxy for vulnerability and parameters such as area and depth of the lake as independent descriptors. Data was acquired from Swedish environmental monitoring programs. The analysis results in a model that can be used to predict this trend and thus predict the vulnera
This master thesis shows how microbial concentrations in raw water can be assessed by scenario modelling of microbial releases from known microbial sources. In this thesis an inventory of potential microbial sources in eastern Mälaren has been performed and 7 major sources of microbial pollution have been identified. The distribution modelling program SeaTrack Östra Mälaren has been used to model
The performance-based codes currently used for design of fire resistance of structural members are, implicitly or explicitly, based on maintaining a certain risk level. The risk level takes into account the potential injuries and casualties if structural collapse should occur in case of fire. Once the design is made, the risk level is not stated explicitly. A risk based design method is presented
