This open access book explores the synergies and tensions between safety and security management from a variety of perspectives and by combining input from numerous disciplines. It defines the concepts of safety and security, and discusses the methodological, organizational and institutional...

In this article, the authors aim at finding a way to effectively communicate situations of risk related to work safety, by catching workers' attention without interrupting their main task. They designed a multimodal alarm solution specifically conceived for a biomedical lab, where workers might...

The validity of the alarm threshold 4sigma has been checked for hypothetical large and small facilities using a two-stage decision model in which the diverter's strategic variable is the quantity diverted, and the defender's strategic variables are the alarm threshold and the effectiveness of...

Three functions (i.e., SENSE, PLAN, and EXECUTE) make up the essential functionality for the battle management/command, control, and communications element of the Global Protection Against Limited Strike system. This report focuses on issues related to the SENSE function to support the...