[SystemSafety] FW: How safe is safe?

Peter Bernard Ladkin ladkin at rvs.uni-bielefeld.de
Wed May 8 11:40:39 CEST 2013


Rob,

On 5/8/13 11:22 AM, Rob Alexander wrote:
> Drew, John McDermid about this recently published a paper on the validity of PRA ---
> http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~rda/PSAM%20QRA%20paper%20final.pdf --- in summary, there are a lot
> of big claims made about the value of PRA and precious little evidence to support them.

Thanks for the reminder about your paper. People might like to know that one of the significant 
sources you reference, Terje Aven's Misconceptions of Risk, at which Andy might well like to take a 
look, is available in (what I think is) full on the WWW. I don't know what Terje thinks of this (let 
alone his publisher).

PBL

Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Faculty of Technology, University of Bielefeld, 33594 Bielefeld, Germany
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