Safety of critical infrastructures

The paper presents a general approach to safety analysis of critical infrastructures that aims to suggest new and to develop existing methods and tools capable of supporting intelligent modeling and decision making in controlling and optimizing the safety of those systems and their accidents consequences risk. Its main focus is on the suggestions of the creation and usage of new techniques, procedures and strategies to improve and to optimize safety of real complex infrastructure systems related to the inside dependencies – among their subsystems and components and the outside dependencies – coming from their operation environment and from other dangerous events and natural hazards. The approach tries to create an original and coherent methodology of safety of critical infrastructures useful in ensuring and improving safety of those systems in various industrial sectors by providing an integrated package of solutions consisting of various packages of theoretical and practical tools ready for direct use by safety theoreticians and practitioners dealing with safety of real critical infrastructures.