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  • Risk Assessment in the Wild

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    Rae, Andrew
    Hawkins, Richard
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    Rae, Drew J.
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    This paper introduces an empirical research method for systems engineering based on the examination of work products. To illustrate the method we describe an investigation of safety risk assessment as it is actually recorded, rather than the standards, forms and procedures used to guide risk assessment. A body of risk assessments was collected via a combination of public search, freedom of information request, and private request. The risk assessments are from multiple domains, for multiple purposes, and follow diverse formats -- the one thing that they have in common is that they are genuine work products. Due to the ...
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    This paper introduces an empirical research method for systems engineering based on the examination of work products. To illustrate the method we describe an investigation of safety risk assessment as it is actually recorded, rather than the standards, forms and procedures used to guide risk assessment. A body of risk assessments was collected via a combination of public search, freedom of information request, and private request. The risk assessments are from multiple domains, for multiple purposes, and follow diverse formats -- the one thing that they have in common is that they are genuine work products. Due to the necessarily arbitrary selection process, the collection cannot resolve quantitative hypotheses about the distribution of phenomena. However, it provides an opportunity to explore assumptions and suspicions about the real-world conduct of risk assessment that cannot be examined by looking at academic literature or guidance documents. The paper makes contributions in three areas: • Our early findings about the characteristics of the risk assessment collection • Our experiences with the exercise itself, and the lessons learnt which may be helpful in future similar research • Observations on the relationship between theoretical and applied system safety, and the methods that may be applied to answer important questions in each sphere.
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    Journal Title
    Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology CRPIT
    Volume
    145
    Publisher URI
    http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2527228
    Copyright Statement
    © 2012 Australian Computer Society, Inc. This paper appeared at conference name and place. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Volume 14, Pages 83-89 . Reproduction for academic, not-for profit purposes permitted provided this text is included.
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    Risk Engineering (excl. Earthquake Engineering)
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/337457
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