Safety evaluation of special equipment based on revolutionary AHP-FCE method

Abstract

This paper divides special equipment safety evaluation factors into indirect factors (environment and management) and direct factors (human and equipment) combined with fishbone diagram based on the factors' features of diversity, fuzziness and interference effects between layers. AHP-FCE method and DEMATEL method are adopted to determine and modify factor weights to build a special equipment safety evaluation system. Finally, a practical case is proposed to examine the effectiveness of this system which is expected to provide a practical, objective and reasonable approach for the improvement of special equipment safety evaluation. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014.