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In the preface of the book “The Importance of Living” (William Morrow, New York, 1937), Lin Yutang writes: “I must therefore conclude by saying as usual that the merits of this book, if any, are largely due to the helpful suggestions of my collaborators, while for the inaccuracies, deficiencies and immaturities of judgment, I alone am responsible.” If we add colleagues and references to the word collaborators, this statement applies equally well for the current book. Rather than mentioning anyone specifically, with the obvious risk that someone we would have liked to mention are forgotten, we acknowledge all the input we have received over the years that we have worked in this field.

The second author would like to thank Alma Mater Studiorium Università di Bologna for giving him the opportunity to spend eight months at the university while working on this book. A special thanks to Professor Valerio Cozzani for organizing the visit.

We also acknowledge the editorial and production staff at John Wiley & Sons for their careful, effective, and professional work. In particular, we would like to mention our main contacts in the final stages of preparing the book, Kathleen Santoloci, Benjamin Elisha, and Viniprammia Premkumar.

Several definitions used in this book are from the International electrotechnical vocabulary (IEV) http://www.electropedia.org . We appreciate the initiative of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) to make this vocabulary freely available. References to the vocabulary are given in the text as IEV xxx‐yy‐zz, where xxx‐yy‐zz is the number of the definition in the IEV.

Definitions 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 as well as a modified version of Figure 4 from ISO 31000:2009, definition 3.6.1.3 from ISO Guide 73 and definition 3.5 from NS 5814 have all been reproduced under license from Standard Online AS June 2019. ©All right reserved. Standard Online makes no guarantees or warranties as to the correctness of the reproduction.

Several references are given to publications by the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE). This is public sector information published by the HSE and licensed under the Open Government License v.1.0.

During the writing of the book, we have read many books, scientific articles, standards, technical reports, guidelines, and notes related to risk assessment. We have tried to process, combine, and reformulate the information obtained, and we have tried to give proper references. If we unconsciously copied sentences without giving proper reference, it has not been our intention, and we apologize if so has happened.