Nowadays, every process needs a safety analysis that must be, from the beginning, integrated in any design, construction or managerial process, to ensure the desired safety and security standards and to calculate the costs. Safety and Security Engineering, due to its special nature, represents an interdisciplinary area of research and applications that brings together, in a systemic view, many disciplines of engineering, from the traditional to the most advanced and novel This book contains most of the papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Safety and Security Engineering (SAFE 2005). The meeting provided a forum for the presentation and discussion of the most recent developments in the theoretical and practical aspects of Safety and Security Engineering. The contributions are divided under the following headings: Modelling and theoretical studies; Risk analysis, assessment and management; ARAMIS: an integrated risk assessment methodology; Novel techniques, systems and devices; Information and communication technologies; Integrated technological systems; Fire prevention and protection; Infrastructures protection; Transportation problems; Population protection; Environmental protection; Emergency and disaster prevention, control, management and recovery; Terrorism prevention and protection; Case studies; Forensic studies; and Industrial environment.

Table of Contents:
Section 1: Modelling and theoretical studies; Modeling system integrity of a security critical system using Colored Petri Nets; Improving safety and security by developing a traffic accident prevention system; Weapon effectiveness models: are they appropriate for use in force protection analyses?; Simulating pedestrians in evacuation processes: a novel approach; A risk based approach to the development of evacuation plans in the mine subsidence area along the Meuse; A hybrid numerical model for quickly assessing indoor contaminant transport; Analysing safety: epistemic uncertainty and the limits of objective safety; Validation of a decision support model to predict concentration after a chemical spill into a river; Finite element analysis of hexagonal tube structures under axial loading; A study of the behaviour of earth electrodes connected together in resonant earthed neutral systems; Section 2: Risk analysis, assessment and management; A mathematically guided strategy for risk assessment and management; Rapid screening of buildings for blast risk assessment; Key issues in the development of risk analysis methodologies and tools; Evaluating the risk of a terrorist attack on a cable-stayed bridge: a probabilistic, structural analysis based approach; ISPESL radon programme: a challenge in the academic programme of a safety and security engineering course; The managing of the navigational safety of ships in port water areas; Initial cost and seismic vulnerability functions for buildings with energy-dissipating devices; Construction site risk analysis based on Shannon entropy: a case study application; Financial instruments integrated with engineering risk assessment for earthquake disaster reduction; Seismic and volcanic risk evaluation by large area geo-monitoring optical fibre sensor networks: the SIMONA project; Assessment and management of 'at risk' populations using a novel GIS based UK population database tool; Reaction inhibition in the control of exothermic runaway; Urban risk assessment and management in the enlarged EU, recent status and trends; Derivation of common safety targets for the European railways; Security: perspectives of remote sensing; Derivation of safety measures through human error risk analyses; Section 3: ARAMIS: an integrated risk assessment methodology; ARAMIS Project: an integrated risk assessment methodology that answers the needs of various stakeholders; Application to a case study of the Aramis methodology for the identification of reference accident scenarios; Development of barrier-oriented audit protocols and safety culture questionnaires: application to Dutch and Danish test sites; The assessment of risk in industrial installations: the risk severity index; Vulnerability of the environment in the proximity of an industrial site; Testing of the ARAMIS methodology in Slovenia - process and results; Section 4: Novel techniques, systems and devices; Health monitoring of cultural heritage using ambient and forced vibrations; On-site experimental evaluation of the elastic characteristics of large concrete structures; Preliminary impact testing of portable safety/security barriers; Radio frequency emissions evaluation for a 3D long range radar; Section 5: Information and communication technologies; Dependability measures of a communication network in a critical transport infrastructure; A framework to evaluate web information systems; Section 6: Integrated technological systems; The integrated security system of the Vatican City State; Increasing efficiency in airport security screening; Using threat image projection data for assessing individual screener performance; An early warning and response system for buildings at risk to toxic airborne materials; Automatic detection of anomalous events for advanced real-time video surveillance; The technique of mine gas monitoring based on multi-sensor information fusion; Section 7: Fire prevention and protection; HELIPLAT: a high altitude very-long endurance solar powered platform for border patrol and forest fire detection; Fuel pool ignition caused by a pyrotechnic device; Measurement of oxygen concentration using laser diode spectroscopy; The life span of buildings and the conversion of cities to an incombustible state; Section 8: Infrastructures protection; Emergency scenarios for public commuter transportation tunnels; The European project UpTun - improving the level of fire safety in existing tunnels; Prediction of blast loads based on the expected damage level by using displacement based method; Management of urban road networks following man-made or natural disasters; Buildings resistance and emergency planning in explosion hazards; Urban dispersion for the 21st century; Section 9: Transportation problems; A behavioural lane changing model for roundabout design; The formal modelling and verification of safety critical ATP; software design; Traffic safety: the Flanders integrated mobility management plan; Innovations in the automation of the electric power railway substations; Crash deformation of side members - Why not use a bumper?; Homogenization of driving conditions when incoming wind angles and intensity change significantly; 60 kph minimum speed limit on rural interstate freeways: is it relevant?; The public perception towards the road safety measures in Estonia; Section 10: Population protection; Application of safety and security principles to flood event management in highly populated urban areas; Hurricane wind shelter retrofit room standards for existing houses; Section 11: Environmental protection; Prevention of acid drainage in a uranium deposit; Rock falls and risk evaluation; Health risk assessment of municipal solid waste incineration; Section 12: Emergency and disaster prevention, control, management and recovery; The integrated supervision and control system of the Gran Sasso mountain; A real-time system for remote co-ordination of rescue teams in an emergency phase; Preventing external domino accidents: a framework for enhancing cooperation in the Chemical Process Industry (CPI); Satellite communications in the Ku band for disaster recovery purposes; Prospects of emergency aviation development as part of the Civil Defence System in Croatia; Section 13: Terrorism prevention and protection; Protecting against terrorist attacks for urban transportation projects; Terrorism prevention measures for office buildings - a new layering approach; Protection of buildings from chemical and biological threats; Security approaches against intentional contamination of water supply systems; Architecture in the era of terror: the security dilemma; Section 14: Case studies; The challenge of corporate safety and security; Penetrating physical security: the anatomy of physical security systems and corresponding defenses; Victim behaviours, intentionality, and differential risks in residential fire deaths; A community-based survey of domestic accidents among people living in the rural area of Rafsanjan-Iran (April 2003 - March 2004); Section 15: Forensic studies; A survey of European and American standards concerning electrical systems in potentially explosive atmospheres; Safety issues of mechanical parking systems in the light of directive 98/37/EC; Section 16: Industrial environment; Risk analysis of chemical substances in an industrial unit - a new tool for prevention; A proposal of a new methodology for the optimization of the WEEE management process in a company producing Cathode Ray Tubes; Fresh air for breathing - equipment for air supply on earth-moving machinery during rehabilitation work on contaminated sites