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1. Introduction
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... Some of these design criteria and construction practices are formally stated in building codes or guidelines used by facility professionals. Others are imposed by law, instilled through professional education, and enforced by the practices of professional organizations and building trades unions.
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... Concerns about the safety of new drugs and other medical technologies, food additives, pesticides and other materials that may pose threats to the environment, and nuclear-powered electric power generating plants or other facilities that could fail with possibly catastrophic human, 2
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... While these judgements often invite controversy, risk analysis is selectively but increasingly being used in government policy development and regulatory decision making, in the nuclear industry, in food and drug regulation, and in the management of environmental hazards that pose threats to human life and health and property.2 Risk analysis is being applied in a limited way to facilities, and these applications have been a subject of debate.3 Critics argue that risk analysis is too uncertain to be useful for facilities design and management. They also argue that, in any case, using risk analysis implies tolerance for risk and acceptance of lower levels of safety than many people expect in facilities.
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... to assess the merits and costs relative to current practices of broader application of risk analysis in federal facility design. The Committee on Risk Appraisal in the Development of Facilities Design Criteria was appointed to make this assessment and to recommend whether risk analysis techniques can foster efficient risk reduction in facilities.S The committee and its individual members reviewed available information, considered presentations made by government officials and professional organizations, and met several times to conduct their assessment.
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... FOCUS AND STRUCTURE OF THE REPORT This report is addressed to everyone concerned with facility safety, and especially to those designers and constructors, facilities managers, and others responsible for setting policy that influences efforts to achieve greater safety in and around buildings. The committee concluded that risk analysis should be more extensively applied, in the private as well as public sectors, to help improve the cost-effective use of limited resources to enhance overall safety and protect human, environmental, and economic values.
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... Facilities designers and owners, and the government agencies and professional organizations that seek to ensure safety and security, all must make decisions that influence specific facilities. These decisions often strike a balance among sometimes differing points of view on risk and safety.


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