Standard Setting Standards: A Systematic Approach to Managing Public Health and Safety Risks.

摘要

The present analysis offers a general framework for setting health and safety standards within the nuclear industry and elsewhere. It draws upon a logical analysis of the role of standards in hazard management and upon a historical review of the experience that various government, industry and professional regulatory bodies have had. From these, it derives a set of guidelines regarding when standards should be used, how they can be derived, and what steps are needed to ensure faithful implementation. A separate report (Fischhoff, 1983) applies this framework in an analysis of the nuclear power safety goals, pointing to their various strengths and weaknesses.