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Risk analysis: understanding 'how safe is safe enough?'

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Derby, SL; Keeney, RL

Published in: Risk Analysis

1981

The basic characteristics of determining acceptable risk are discussed. Technical, political, and social aspects of the problem add much complexity. The appropriate manner to reach responsible decisions regarding acceptable risk is suggested. This explicitly addresses the alternatives, the objectives, the uncertainty, and the values which constitute the information necessary to arrive at any solution. The inappropriateness of many 'solutions' currently in use or 'suggested' is exposed.

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Author Ralph L. Keeney Fuqua School of Business

Published In

Risk Analysis

Publication Date

1981

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Start / End Page

217 / 224

Related Subject Headings

Strategic, Defence & Security Studies

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Derby, S. L., & Keeney, R. L. (1981). Risk analysis: understanding 'how safe is safe enough?'. Risk Analysis, 1(3), 217–224.

Derby, S. L., and R. L. Keeney. “Risk analysis: understanding 'how safe is safe enough?'.” Risk Analysis 1, no. 3 (1981): 217–24.

Derby SL, Keeney RL. Risk analysis: understanding 'how safe is safe enough?'. Risk Analysis. 1981;1(3):217–24.

Derby, S. L., and R. L. Keeney. “Risk analysis: understanding 'how safe is safe enough?'.” Risk Analysis, vol. 1, no. 3, 1981, pp. 217–24.

Derby SL, Keeney RL. Risk analysis: understanding 'how safe is safe enough?'. Risk Analysis. 1981;1(3):217–224.