Risk Analysis, a Fuzzy Analytic Approach

Abstract

One of the challenges in designing industrial systems is integrating accident risk analysis with the other technical analysis tools. In the face of this challenge, this paper introduces an analytic approach to defining the occupational risk entities in computer-aided design software by visualizing the risk entities as geometric shapes. It uses energy/barrier analysis and the fuzzy set theory to model the protective role of barriers and infer the effects of harmful agents on humans and assets (targets). It defines dangers and targets presence zones by fuzzy sets, the so-called “fuzzy spaces” demonstrated as geometric profiles. The barriers affect these geometric profiles, and fuzzy union and intersection aggregate the effects of several dangers and protective measures. The model calculates the quantitative risk indexes for the various workplace points. The proposed model is adapted to evaluate the risk in the computer-aided design platform during the workplace simulation. An example illustrates the model application in a one-dimensional space.