Risk measure - ROSS
Chapter 4
How to Measure and Evaluate Risk?
This page provides additional information to Chapter 4 of the book Risk Assessment; Theory, Methods, and Applications
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Section 4.4
- Nuclear Accidents
The severity of nuclear accidents is often classified according to the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES). This scale has eight levels:
7. Major accident (so far only Chernobyl and Fukushima)
6. Serious accident
5. Accident with wider consequences
4. Accident with local consequences
3. Serious incident
2. Incident
1. Anomaly
0. Deviation (no safety significance)
Additional reading
- HSE RR703: Societal risk
- HSE (1992): The Tolerability of Risk from Nuclear Power Stations
- HSE (2001): Reducing Risk, Protecting People (r2p2)
- Land-use planning guideline - for the Seveso II directive
- HSE (2001): A Guide to Measuring Healty & Safety Performance
- Johansen, I.L. (2010) Foundations and Fallacies of Risk Acceptance Criteria. ROSS Report
- Johansen, I.L. and M. Rausand (2012) Risk Metrics: Interpretation and Choice
[Proc. of the 2012 IEEE IEEM pp. 1914-1918, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEEM). Hong Kong, Dec. 10-13, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-4673-2944-6] - Acceptance Criteria in Denmark and the EU (2009)
- ALARP Guidance note, GN0166, NOPSEMA (2012)
