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Applied Safety Assessment Workshop in Conjunction with Cranfield University

R.G.W. Cherry & Associates are pleased to be co-presenters of the APPLIED SAFETY ASSESSMENT Workshop offered by Cranfield University.

Delegates are given an opportunity to gain practical experience in carrying out a comprehensive System Safety Assessment. The Workshop takes the form of a series of hands-on tutorials to describe the process and techniques involved, over 4.5 days. Delegates will work in groups to carry out the System Safety Assessment and will use various methods including the following safety analysis techniques:

  • Functional Hazard Assessment
  • Particular Risks
  • Enhanced Fault Tree Analysis
  • Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
  • Zonal Safety Analysis

The next scheduled presentation of the workshop is 25th - 29th June 2012. The course will also be run between 3rd - 7th December 2012.

Please click here for more details.


Freighter Airplane Cargo Fire Risk Model

Following the Boeing 747 freighter airplane accident on September 3, 2010, at Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates, the Federal Aviation Administration, Transport Canada, and the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority initiated a study by R.G.W. Cherry & Associates Limited to assess the magnitude of the potential threat to freighter airplanes from onboard cargo fires. As part of this study, a risk model was developed to assess the likely number of U.S.-registered freighter fire accidents through the year 2020 and the average annual cost due to their occurrence. The study focused on the potential fire threat from the bulk shipment of lithium batteries (primary and secondary) because they were likely contributors to two of the freighter fire accidents that occurred on U.S.-registered airplanes. For this reason, the risk model considered the potential threat from lithium batteries separately from other cargo. This report summarizes the risk model, explains the data and algorithms used, and explains how the model may be used. Subsequent phases of this study will address cost benefit ratios for various mitigation strategies.

This report can now be downloaded here. Click here to download the Model (MS Excel 2007 or later, 101MB).


Last updated February 2012