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AUTHOR(S):

Dana Prochazkova, Jan Prochazka

 

TITLE

Results of Inspections of Risk Management Quality in Facilities of Critical Infrastructure

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KEYWORDS

Critical infrastructure; critical facility; provision of territory services; security; safety; model for facility safety management in time.

ABSTRACT

The critical infrastructure is a set of interfaced infrastructures that is very important for ensuring the safe communities because it ensures for the community the basic services which are necessary for humans´ live as energy, good quality drinking water, utility water, transport, information, rescue services etc. Each infrastructure consists from complex technological facilities and linear elements that ensured the services in the community; the paper concentrates attention to the first mentioned item. Series of events from recent years connected with failure of critical facilities show their high importance. The critical facilities under account represent multistage mutually overlapping systems, i.e. great complex systems, the type of which is a system of systems. In the first part the paper presents the very advanced procedure of work with risks ensuring the safety of these facilities that is based on the system safety management; i.e. on the combination of principles: All-Hazard-Approach and Defence-In-Depth; safety culture; and on special management procedure of work with risks in time; i.e., it shows: concept of critical facility safety; way of work with risks; method of critical complex facility safety management model building; and model for critical complex facility safety management in time. In the second part the paper summarizes the results of inspections directed to judgement of consistency of real facilities safety performance with demands of ideal model.

Cite this paper

Dana Prochazkova, Jan Prochazka. (2016) Results of Inspections of Risk Management Quality in Facilities of Critical Infrastructure. International Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 1, 8-17