bridgebuster
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- Jun 27, 1999
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Risk Assessment is a "subjective" process; and it's also a group process.
It's fairly simple to rank the importance of bridge components and understand the consequence of their failure.
Identifying the hazards (especially the non-structral) can be fuzzy, although there are consultants who specialize in this area.
How much damage or potential loss of life is acceptable? It's a political decision. And the decision is somewhere between Dirty Harry ("Are you feeling lucky today?") and Josef Stalin ("If one man dies it's a tragedy; if a million die, it's a statistic.")
It's fairly simple to rank the importance of bridge components and understand the consequence of their failure.
Identifying the hazards (especially the non-structral) can be fuzzy, although there are consultants who specialize in this area.
How much damage or potential loss of life is acceptable? It's a political decision. And the decision is somewhere between Dirty Harry ("Are you feeling lucky today?") and Josef Stalin ("If one man dies it's a tragedy; if a million die, it's a statistic.")