#ALARP

📈 Fire Risk Assessment September 6, 2026 · 19 min read

ALARP: How 'As Low As Reasonably Practicable' Became Law

ALARP turns a 1949 mining case into a legal test. Here come the tolerability limits, the gross disproportion arithmetic, and how a BESS case uses them.

Modern fire-safety engineer's office at golden hour with a wall-mounted F-N curve chart — red intolerable zone above a downward-sloping diagonal, amber ALARP carpet in the middle, green broadly acceptable zone below, dotted plant curve descending through the carpet — and an engineer's hand pointing at the chart with a red marker

📈 Fire Risk Assessment May 8, 2026 · 19 min read

F-N Curve and Societal Risk: Drawing the Line on Safety

An F-N curve maps the societal risk a regulator will tolerate. Here is the math, the slope, the ALARP carpet, and where each sector draws the line.