The crisis at Japan's Fukushima site highlighted how three distinct sets of risks can interact: operator error, equipment and facilities failures, and siting near geological risks. We tend to think of ...

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) forms the cornerstone of systematic investigations into potential failures within complex engineering systems. By utilising logical diagrams comprised of gates such as AND, ...

It's popular among the highly technical trades, but a fault tree can also pinpoint problems within a small manufacturing operation. A properly done fault tree analysis, or FTA, shows relations between ...