The Research Committee on Risk Technology provides an international focus for communication and other cooperative activities among individuals and organizations concerned with the development, application, and implementation of risk-based technology. This focus relates to the use of this technology to prioritize, specify, measure and verify the reliability in design, construction, operation, inspection, testing, maintenance, repair, replacement and disposal of mechanical components, systems, and structures by industry, all levels of government and academia.

Click here to read an article on risk analysis published in the July 2002 issue of Mechanical Engineering.