Temporary Associate Professor

Yiliu Liu is engaged as a temporary associate professor in reliability engineering in the RAMS group - starting 1 March 2012.

RAMS Group attend 2011 ESREL conference in Troyes

From september 18 to 22, 2011, the RAMS group members: Prof. Jørn Vatn, Prof. Mary Ann Lundteigen, Postdoc Yiliu Liu, and Ph.D. students Tor Olav Grøtan, Zafar Hameed, Hui Jin, Inger Lisa Johansen and Maryam Rahimi attended ESREL conference in Troyes. They presented several papers it this conference. Other groups of the ROSS Center also presented their works in the conference.

New postdoc at the RAMS Group

PhD Liu Yiliu frm China has accepted a postdoc position for two years at theRAMS Group. The academic year 2009/10 he was an exchange PhD student at the same group. Yiliu will work with reliability assessment of safety-critical systems during his postdoc period. He is expected to join the RAMS Group in March 2011.

New ROSS Report: Foundations of Risk Assessment

 The ROSS report "Foundations of Risk Assessment" is written by Inger Lise Johansen of the RAMS group. She was awarded the Tryg price for 2010 for this report.

Recognition to Thomas Welte for his publication in the Journal of Risk and Reliability

His paper "A rule-based approach for establishing states in a Markov process applied to maintenance modelling" was one out of five "highly recommended papers" in 2009 in the journal of Journal of Risk and Reliability. His paper can be found at http://journals.pepublishing.com/content/uq01k4335374224n/ .

New ROSS report on risk acceptance criteria

The report is available from here .

Workingonsafety.net

WORKINGONSAFETY.NET is an international network of decision-makers, researchers and professionals responsible for the prevention of accidents and trauma at work. It is supported by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work.

The main theme of the conference is ‘On the road to vision zero?' Related to this topic, the main focus will be on the prevention of accidents at work, and especially on the understanding and prevention of occupational accidents; however, major accidents resulting in loss of lives and health in industry and transportation are also within the scope of the conference. See conference web page for more information.

Marine Systems Group joins ROSS Gemini Centre

The Marine Systems Group at Department of Marine Technology, NTNU, has become a member of the ROSS Gemini Centre. The new member brings in complementary compentence on safety issues related to maritime transportation systems and marine operations. The centre facilitates increased cooperation within lecturing, supervision of students, and on research projects.

Collaboration agreement signed between the ROSS centre and the China University of Petroleum

The agreement includes adacemic exchanges, graduate student exchanges, and collaborative research work.

Professor Andrew Hopkins visits NTNU on November 03

The first part of the lectures takes place in room Breidablikk from 8:30 to 12:00:

  • 08:30-10:00: Thinking about process safety indicators
  • 10:30 - 12:00: A critique of "acceptable risk"

The room has capacity for 200 persons, so it is just to show up.

From 13:30 to 15:00 the topic is "lessons from Longford" and the presentation takes place at Det Norske (oljeselskap) at Nedre Bakklanded 58C. Due to limited room capacity, it is important to confirm the participation with Ivonne.A.Herrera@sintef.no

ExxonMobil price for best applied doctoral thesis

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At the Doctoral Degree Awards Ceremony at NTNU on June 3rd 2009, Mary Ann Lundteigen was awarded the ExxonMobil price for best applied doctorial thesis. The title of the thesis was "Safety instrumented systems in the oil and gas industry: Concepts and methods for safety and reliability assessments in design and operation".

The work was carried out at the institute of production and quality engineering, in the field safety, reliability, and maintenance, and her supervisor has been professor Marvin Rausand.

Six articles in international journals so far in 2009 (April)

The articles are:

ROSS Gemini - A major contributor to the ESREL conference 2009 in Prague

Examples are:

  • Maintenanance management and optimization of FPSOs by Eivind Okstad (SINTEF), Jørn Vatn (NTNU), Roar Bye (Teekay Petrojarl Production)
  • Updating failure rates and test intervals in the operational phase: A practical implementation of IEC 61511 and IEC 61508 by Stein Hauge (SINTEF), Mary Ann Lundteigen (NTNU) and Marvin Rausand (NTNU).
  • Formal Vulnerability Assessment: A methodology for assessing and mitigating strategic vulnerabilities in maritime supply chains by Øyvind Berle (NTNU) and Bjørn Egil Asbjørnslett (NTNU)
  • Risk Influence Modeling of Recent Developments in Helicopter Safety on the Norwegian Continental Shelf by Tony Kråkenes (SINTEF), Solfrid Håbrekke (SINTEF) & Ivonne Andrade Herrera (NTNU/SINTEF)
  • Scientific foundations of risk in complex and dynamic environments by Tor Olav Grøtan (NTNU), Fred Størseth (SINTEF) and Eirik Albrechtsen (SINTEF)
  • How shared situational awareness influence organizational accident risk in the offshore oil industry by Tor Olav Grøtan (NTNU) , Kari Skarholt (SINTEF) og Eirik Albrechtsen (SINTEF)
  • Building Safety by resilient organization - a case specific approach by Fred Størseth (SINTEF), Ranveig K. Tinmannsvik (SINTEF) and Knut Øien (SINTEF/NTNU)
  • A structured approach to modeling interdependencies in risk analysis of critical infrastructures by Ingrid B. Utne (NTNU), Per Hokstad (SINTEF) and Jørn Vatn (NTNU)
  • Issues related to localization of an LNG facility by Jørn Vatn (NTNU)
  • Life extension of machinery in oil and gas industry by Pratichi Vaidya (NTNU) and Marvin Rausand (NTNU)
  • Disintegration and revival of tripartite collaboration on HSE in the Norwegian petroleum industry by Anita Moen (UiS), Helene C. Blakstad (SINTEF), Ulla Forseth (SINTEF) and Ragnar Rosness (SINTEF).
  • Exploring safety critical decision-making by Fred Størseth (SINTEF), Ragnar Rosness (SINTEF), og Geir Guttormsen (SINTEF)

New book in risk analysis: Risikoanalyse. Teori og metoder (in Norwegian)

The book "Risikoanalyse. Veiledning til NS 5814", launched in 1991, has been a great success with readers both in industry and academia. Even so, nearly 20 years have passed, creating new knowledge and experience in the field. An extensive update of the book was needed, and the result is a completely new book, to be published in July 2009. For more information, see Risikoanalyse. Teori og metoder

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