Academy Risk Project

Starting in 2000 and led by Mr John Turnbull FREng, the Academy has been addressing various aspects of engineering risk. This has involved a number of conferences and seminars, and a series of reports. Details of events held, and reports produced (downloadable from this site), are given below:

Meetings

February 2006

A seminar on ‘The Economics & Morality of Safety’ at Mary Sumner House, Westminster.

November 2004

A sharing good practice Workshop ‘Humans in Complex Engineering Systems,’ at the Academy.

June 2004

A debate at Church House, Westminster, ‘Trust me, I’m an engineer.’

January 2003

Risky Business Conference, Church House, Westminster (the launch of three reports on Risk).

November 2000

A seminar on ‘Society’s Acceptance of Risk’ at the Academy.

October 2000

A seminar on ‘The Response to Commercial Risk’ at the Academy.

September 2000

A seminar on ‘The Elimination of Technical Risk’ at the Academy.

Publications

• The Economics and Morality of Safety (275KB) report and proceedings of a seminar - 2006.

• Humans in Complex Engineering Systems (3929KB) proceedings of the sharing good practice workshop - 2005.

• The Risk Debate: ‘Trust me, I’m an engineer’ (4623KB) - 2004

• The Societal Aspects of Risk (634KB) - 2003

• Risks Posed by Humans in the Control Loop (737KB) - 2003

• Common Methodologies for Risk Assessment & Management (977KB) - 2003

The Academy welcomes any thoughts, ideas or proposals for further activity in the area of engineering risk.

Further information

Please contact:

Natasha McCarthy

[E-mail Natasha McCarthy]

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