• The Polar Code's Implications for Safe Ship Operations in the Arctic Region. 

      Engtrø, Espen; Gudmestad, Ove Tobias; Njå, Ove (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-09)
      ABSTRACT: Simultaneously with a decreasing sea ice cover in the Arctic region an increase in ship traffic is experienced in these waters, meaning a higher probability of accidents and incidents to occur. The capability to ...
    • The reliability science: Its foundation and link to risk science and other sciences 

      Aven, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06)
      Several authors have recently questioned whether reliability is a science and a new science. The current paper follows up this discussion. It is argued that reliability is indeed a science and it is important that it is ...
    • Risk science applied to major risk events in history 

      Thekdi, Shital; Aven, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Major risk events in history are often labeled as black swans or as unforeseeable given the risk policies and procedures existing at the time. Hindsight suggests that many of these events could have been foreseeable. This ...
    • Risk Science Contributions: Three Illustrating Examples 

      Aven, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-07)
      This article aims to demonstrate that risk science is important for society, industry and all of us. Rather few people today, including scientists and managers, are familiar with what this science is about—its foundation ...
    • Three influential risk foundation papers from the 80s and 90s: Are they still state-of-the-art? 

      Aven, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01)
      Three of the most influential scientific works in the risk field, at least in the engineering environment, are Stan Kaplan and John Garrick's paper from 1981 on risk quantification, George Apostolakis’ paper on probability ...