Dienstag, 13. April 2021, 17:00 - 18:30 iCal
12th International Lecture on Hazard and Risk
HOW SAFE IS SAFE ENOUGH? IN THE CONTEXT(S) OF NATURAL HAZARDS
Tony TAIG, BA
Director of TTAC Ltd.,
Marston Cheshire, UK
Vortrag
After graduating in chemistry in 1977 I began my career in risk with the UK Atomic Energy Authority. I spent 3 formative years at Sandia National Lab in the USA in the 1980’s working on severe nuclear accidents, developing a strong interest in the uncertainty and use of risk information as well as in the more technical aspects of how to estimate risk. Since returning to the UK I spent the rest of my career developing and applying risk concepts across a wide range of different walks of life, first in the UKAEA and its successor private companies, ultimately as Managing Director of its management consulting practice “Risk Solutions”. Since 2001 I have run my own consulting practice, TTAC Ltd, of which I am the director and principal. Over the last 20 years I have worked extensively in New Zealand and the Netherlands on natural hazards issues, in particular on the aftermath of the Canterbury earthquake swarm in 2010/11, on man-made earthquakes in the Groningen province of the Netherlands, and on a wide variety of hazards to visitors and workers in NZ National Parks and other public spaces. A major theme throughout has been how to make good decisions about risk, once the technical work of estimating risk levels has been completed. This talk/discussion will focus on this theme, covering a wide variety of hazards and contexts, from people in their homes to road users, people at work and visitors to public places – and in different situations in which they more or less have the imposed upon them or undertake the risky activity by choice.
Zoom-Meeting beitreten
univienna.zoom.us/j/93395961763
Meeting-ID: 933 9596 1763
Passwort: 771259
Veranstalter
ENGAGE Geomorphological Systems and Risk Research
Kontakt
Aleksandra Tyjan
Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung
Physische Geographie
48605
aleksandra.tyjan@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Dienstag, 30. Mrz 2021, 12:55
Letzte Änderung am Mittwoch, 14. April 2021, 19:23