Aalborg University Esbjerg - Department of Civil Engineering 

Danish Centre for Risk and Safety Management (RISK)

In present day, humans interact with many highly complex systems, which in turn can interact with each other. Due to this increase in complexity, the need for rigorous risk and safety management tools also increases. Risk is often expressed in terms of a combination of the consequences of an event and the associated likelihood of occurrence with respect to a given objective. The objective can relate to different aspects although typically it involves financial, environmental or health and safety aspects. An important aspect of risk and safety management is to make decisions regarding risk and safety issues affecting for instance an entire organization or individual processes.

Apart from the simplest cases, decision-making is supported by a risk analysis, which may involve some degree of risk modeling. During this analysis and the decision process, information about risk is frequently communicated between the different stakeholders. This information, which can relate to all aspects of risk, (like existence, nature, form, probability and acceptability) requires a uniform language to ensure an unambiguous knowledge transfer between stakeholders.

The aim of RISK is to carry out research, and provide education, in the field of risk and safety management to help reduce the stakeholder’s exposure to risk and design safer systems and work procedures.

Contact details

Sigurd Blöndal
Ph.d. - Fellow and Market Analyst
Aalborg University Esbjerg
Danish Centre for Risk & Safety Management
Department of Civil Engineering
Niels Bohrs Vej 8
DK-6700 Esbjerg
Tel: +45 (0) 9940 7635 / 4098 4301
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Lars Damkilde
Professor
Aalborg University Esbjerg
Danish Centre for Risk & Safety Management
Department of Civil Engineering
Niels Bohrs Vej 8
DK-6700 Esbjerg                                                                          
Tel: +45 (0) 9940 7648 
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