Welcome to issue 46 of our company technical newsletter, RISKworld. We hope you find these articles interesting and thought provoking. As always we welcome your feedback.
Societal Acceptance Risk
The risk associated with societal acceptance of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is increasingly important as CCS projects are planned and developed. Andrew Bannister talks us through the key considerations, and how this can be assessed.
Integrated Accessibility
With the increase in the use of hydrogen fuel cells in vehicles, Lars Broegelmann discusses how functional safety is considered between industrial and vehicular applications.
Small but Mighty
With more than 80 conceptual commercial Small Module Reactor (SMR) designs in existence, Emilia Gajda and Mustafa Osman bring us up to date with developments.
Common Perspective
Sam Sellers takes a look at the interaction between the Common Safety Method on Risk Evaluation and Assessment (CSM-RA) and EN 50126, and the overlapping role they play in the risk assessment process.
A Difficult Task?
With Safety Critical Task Analysis (SCTA) and bowtie Safety Critical Tasks (SCTs) sharing a strikingly similar name, Jana Mihulkova and David McDade consider how they interact and overlap.