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FAA Office of Aviation Policy and Plans, Washington, DC
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Systems?, Mining 2012, Keystone CO
Oboni C, Oboni F (2013) Factual and Foreseeable Reliability of Tailings Dams and Nuclear Reactors—a Societal Acceptability Perspective, Tailings and Mine Waste 2013, Banff, AB, November
6 to 9, 2013
Oboni F, Oboni C (2014a) Ethics and transparent risk communication start with proper risk assessment methodologies, EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna, May, 2014
Oboni C, Oboni F (2014b) Aspects of Risk Tolerability, Manageable vs. Unmanageable Risks
in Relation to Critical Decisions, Perpetuity Projects, Public Opposition, Geohazards 6 (2014),
Kingston (ON), Canada, June 15–18, 2014.
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Optimization, Risk and Resilience 2016, Vancouver Canada, November 13–16, 2016
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Assessments, Risk and Resilience 2016, Vancouver Canada, November 13–16, 2016. https://
www.riskope.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Ten-Rules-For-Sensible-Risk-Assessments.pdf
Renshaw FM (1990) A Major Accident Prevention Program, Plant/Operations Progress 9(3):
194–197
Roche C, Thygesen K, Baker, E (eds.) (2017) Mine Tailings Storage: Safety Is No Accident.
A UNEP Rapid Response Assessment. United Nations Environment Programme and GRIDArendal, Nairobi and Arendal, ISBN: 978-82-7701-170-7. http://www.grida.no/publications/383
4 Historic Failures “Statistics”
Canadian Dam Association (CDA) (2014) Application of dam safety guidelines to mining dams.
Technical Bulletin
Chapman C, Ward S (2011) The Probability-impact grid - a tool that needs scrapping, in: How to
manage Project Opportunity and Risk, 3rd ed., ch. 2, pp 49–51, Chichester, GB, John Wiley &
Sons
Comar C (1987) Risk: A pragmatic de minimis approach, in: De Minimis Risk, ed C. Whipple, pp.
xiii–xiv, New York, Plenum Press
Cox, LA Jr (2008) What’s Wrong with Risk Matrices? Risk Analysis 28(2): 497–512.
Dezfuli H, Kelly D, Smith C, Vedros K, Galyean W (2009) Bayesian Inference for NASA Probabilistic Risk and Reliability Analysis, NASA/SP-2011-3421. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/
casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20120001369.pdf
[FAA 2002] Federal Aviation Administration (2002) Aviation industry overview fiscal year 2001,
FAA Office of Aviation Policy and Plans, Washington, DC
Hubbard D (2009) Worse than Useless. The most popular risk assessment method and Why it
doesn’t work, in: The Failure of Risk Management. Ch. 7, pp. 117–144, Hoboken, Wiley & Sons
Mahesh P (2014) Statistical Analysis of Common Cause Failure Data to Support Safety and Reliability Analysis of Nuclear Plant Systems, The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
[Mount Polley Report 2015] Independent Expert Engineering Investigation and Review Panel (2015)
Report on Mount Polley Tailings Storage Facility Breach. https://www.mountpolleyreviewpanel.
ca/final-report
[NASA 2007] NASA. NASA Systems Engineering Handbook SP-2007-6105. National Aeronautics
and Space Administration. Washington, D.C. Chapter 6.4 (2007)
Oboni C, Oboni F (2012) Is it true that PIGs Fly when Evaluating Risks of Tailings Management
Systems?, Mining 2012, Keystone CO
Oboni C, Oboni F (2013) Factual and Foreseeable Reliability of Tailings Dams and Nuclear Reactors—a Societal Acceptability Perspective, Tailings and Mine Waste 2013, Banff, AB, November
6 to 9, 2013
Oboni F, Oboni C (2014a) Ethics and transparent risk communication start with proper risk assessment methodologies, EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna, May, 2014
Oboni C, Oboni F (2014b) Aspects of Risk Tolerability, Manageable vs. Unmanageable Risks
in Relation to Critical Decisions, Perpetuity Projects, Public Opposition, Geohazards 6 (2014),
Kingston (ON), Canada, June 15–18, 2014.
Oboni F, Oboni C (2016a) Military Grade Risk Application For projects’ Defence, Resilience and
Optimization, Risk and Resilience 2016, Vancouver Canada, November 13–16, 2016
Oboni F, Oboni C (2016b) A systemic look at tailings dams failure process, Tailings and Mine Waste
2016, Keystone CO, USA, October 2–5, 2016. https://www.riskope.com/wp-content/uploads/
2016/10/Paper-17_A-systemic-look-at-TD-failure-TMW-2016_07-11_revised.pdf
[Oboni et al. 2013] Oboni F, Oboni C, Zabolotniuk S (2013) Can We Stop Misrepresenting Reality
to the Public? CIM 2013, Toronto. https://www.riskope.com/wp-content/uploads/Can-We-StopMisrepresenting-Reality-to-the-Public.pdf
[Oboni et al. 2014] Oboni F, Oboni C, Caldwell J (2014) Risk assessment of the long-term performance of closed tailings, Tailings and Mine Waste 2014, Keystone CO, USA, October 5–8,
2014
[Oboni et al. 2016] Oboni F, Caldwell J, Oboni C (2016) Ten Rules For Preparing Sensible Risk
Assessments, Risk and Resilience 2016, Vancouver Canada, November 13–16, 2016. https://
www.riskope.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Ten-Rules-For-Sensible-Risk-Assessments.pdf
Renshaw FM (1990) A Major Accident Prevention Program, Plant/Operations Progress 9(3):
194–197
Roche C, Thygesen K, Baker, E (eds.) (2017) Mine Tailings Storage: Safety Is No Accident.
A UNEP Rapid Response Assessment. United Nations Environment Programme and GRIDArendal, Nairobi and Arendal, ISBN: 978-82-7701-170-7. http://www.grida.no/publications/383