Paper abstracts from the Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, May 14-18, 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana. The objective of this conference is to promote rational decision making to assure safety and reliability and to optimize the use of resources for complex systems. This is to be achieved through the use of risk assessment and management methods.

The conference provides a forum for information exchanges covering both theory and applications of these methods to the design and operation of technological systems and processes. This conference is held at approximately two-year intervals. This book contains one-page abstracts from each published paper, and a CD is also available containing over 300 full papers in a searchable format.