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A worker is told her chances of being killed by a particular process are 1 in every 500 years. Should the worker be satisfied or alarmed? What is the FAR (assuming normal working hours) and the deaths per person per year?

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Chemical Process Safety Assignment Related To FAR Calculations.

A worker is told her chances of being killed by a particular process are 1 in every 500 years. Should the worker be satisfied or alarmed? What is the FAR (assuming normal working hours) and the deaths per person per year?

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SyedNasirDanial(snd804@mun.

ca)

MUNID201176310

Safety & Risk Engineering


ENGI 9115
Solution to Assignment # 1
Course Supervisor: Dr. Faisal Khan
Name:
Dated:

Syed Nasir Danial


May 10, 2012

Email: [email protected]

Problem 2: A worker is told her chances of being killed by a particular process are 1 in every 500 years.
Should the worker be satisfied or alarmed? What is the FAR (assuming normal working hours) and the
deaths per person per year?
Solution:
The sample space is long enough to cover the period of 500 years.
The sample space comprises workers and the probability distribution is such that for a worker, say, Wi
which is sampled at the ith time unit:
Prob(Wi will die) = 1.0
Since the probability is at maximum which means that the worker must die in 500 years, therefore, the
number of fatalities in 500 years is 1.
Although, it is difficult to say if the person is really alarmed without knowing the actual probability
distribution but assuming a uniform distribution, and because the maximum duration of lifetime a worker
can work is 50 years, if we divide the 500yrs interval into 10 pieces, the probability will not be changed
because of uniformity in the distribution. But in case, the distribution is not uniform, say it is skewed
towards left or right, and possesses some correlation structure then changing the sample size will have a
definite impact on the probability of selection.
Anyways, under the assumption of a uniform distribution, which I think is often natural to a layman, the
worker will be alarmed.
Now, the FAR is calculated as:
.

100

The deaths per person per year is called Fatality Rate and is calculated as:

50

; assuming 6 days per week, and 50 weeks in a year

= 0.24
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Problem 5: A car leaves New York City and travels 2800-miles distance to Los Angles at an average
speed of 50 mile per hour. An alternative travel plan is to fly on a commercial airline for 4 and 1/2 hr.
Which travel is safest, based on FAR in general, and for this trip, fatality rate (this trip)?
Solution
Based on FAR, in general1, travelling by car is safer because the corresponding FAR value is 57 which is
around a quarter (only 23.75%) for the value of FAR for travelling by air.
However, if we keep the parameters of the given case, we can calculate the number of fatalities both for
car and for aeroplane as given here as under:
By definition, FAR is defined as:
.

For this trip by car


The total passenger hours =
57
=>

= 2000000

no. of fatalities by car = fatality rate by car= 1.14.

For this trip by air


The speed by air is 2800/4.5 = 622.22 miles / hr.
The total passenger hours =
240

= 160714.3

no. of fatalities by air =fatality rate by air = 0.38


Comparing the two values, we find that:

=>

no. of fatalities by air < no. of fatalities by car


Travelling by air is safer for this trip because the fatality rate is less.

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Problem 6: An employee works in a plant with a FAR of 4. If this employee works a 4hrs shift, 200 days
per year, what is the expected death per person per year?
Solution

Fatality Rate = Expected death per person per year =


=

200

= 3.2 105 deaths per person per year.

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