Podrobný výpis o publikaci

In engineering or scientific research, we encounter the terms phenomenon, event, action, state, and situation. All these entities may have positive or negative impacts on various objects or subjects with respect to how we perceive them, what we value and why. The terms threat, jeopardy, agent (threat originator, source), damage and losses arise in connection with our safety and security entities defined and fulfilled by us that we must realise in design, development, production, operation, and maintenance of various technological facilities, products, infrastructure, etc. The terms defined below are necessary to understand the issues of risk analysis and effective risk management. The issue generally relates to security and equally applies to forensics, as well as other fields of human activities. The presented material is one of the outputs of the research of the general security theory at the Academy of the Police Force in Bratislava.