Safety and Security Engineering IV contains the proceedings of the fourth in a biennial series of conferences that bring together experts from around the world and span many engineering disciplines, ranging from traditional to technologically advanced. The conferences review the most recent developments in the theoretical and practical aspects of Safety and Security Engineering.
Safety & Security Engineering involves analyzing the hazard context by means of traditional tools as well as risk analysis techniques and then applying technical solutions, installations, systems, human resources and procedures to prevent and react to events, both natural and manmade, that could damage people or property. This implies that Safety & Security Engineering uses a systemic and multidisciplinary approach, decomposing the problems to be solved into elementary problems, studying their reciprocal relations and interactions and finding a final optimal solution that takes into consideration all the multiple aspects including their belonging to a complex system.
Research topics covered include Modelling and Theoretical Studies, Risk Analysis, Assessment and Management, Infrastructure Protection, Transportation Security, Emergency and Disaster Management, Surveillance Systems, Homeland Security, Natural Disaster
Management(including Earthquakes and Tsunami),Construction Safety and Security, National and International Aspects of Safety and Security, Bioterrorism(including Food Terrorism), Cost/Benefit Analyses and Economic Studies and Risk Communication Strategies.