Abstract
The paper concerns research related to the European project CIRAS and presents a validation experiment with the use of a risk management tool adapted for critical infrastructures. The project context and state of the art are discussed. The adaptation of the risk management tool is performed according to previously elaborated requirements which consider interdependencies, cause-consequences analysis, risk measures and risk register implementation. A novel structured risk management method was proposed how to deal with internal and external impacts of a hazardous event which occurred in the given CI. The method is embedded into the critical infrastructure resilience process. These requirements can be implemented on the ready-to-use software platform for further experiments. The experimentation results are used as the input for CIRAS. The discussed tool can be applied as the risk reduction component in the CIRAS Tool, and the validation process presented here is the basis to elaborate two project use cases.
Highlights
The paper concerns the risk management issue in critical infrastructures
This paper presents research which allowed to assess whether OSCAD can fulfil the project requirements and whether it can be used as the Risk Reduction Assessment (RRA) component of the CIRAS Tool
The question is to what extent the requirements are satisfied by OSCAD-CIRAS, i.e., whether OSCAD-CIRAS is able to work as the risk reduction assessment (RRA) component within the CIRAS Tool
Summary
Today’s societies are based on products and services provided by large-scale technical infrastructures of such sectors as energy, oil, gas, finances, transport, telecommunications, health, etc. These infrastructures, when disrupted or destroyed, have a serious impact on health, safety, security or well-being of the society or effective functioning of governments and/or economies, they are called critical infrastructures (CIs). The CI disturbances or damages hamper the economic growth, social prosperity and sustainable development of our civilization For this reason, it is very important to mitigate any negative impact on critical infrastructures. Risk management, which plays the key role in the CI protection, still remains a challenge due to many unresolved problems. This was the author’s motivation to undertake research in this field
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