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Teuvo Uusitalo
Current position at VTT
Senior Research Scientist, Team Leader, Enterprise risk management
Research background and current research topics
Background: Safety management, risk analysis
Current interests: Enterprise risk management, critical infrastructure protection, security management, resilience, sustainability.
Current major research projects at VTT
Research related to risk management in service business and business networks, security management and sustainable value creation.
Education
Licentiate of Technology in Safety Engineering, 1992, Tampere University of
Technology
Master of Science in Engineering, 1986, Tampere University
of Technology
Work history
VTT, Senior Research Scientist, Team Leader, Enterprise risk management, 2005 -
VTT
Industrial Systems, Research Scientist, Risk management, 2001 - 2004
European
Agency for Safety and Health at Work, Bilbao, Spain, Project manager, managing
the Agency’s internet information network development, 1998 - 2001
Research
scientist, Tampere University of Technology, development of occupational
safety information services, 1994 - 1988
Associate Expert,
International Labour Office (ILO), Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific,
Bangkok, Thailand, 1992 - 1994
Inspector, Technical Inspection Centre,
Tampere, Finland, 1991
Research scientist, Tampere University of
Technology, 1986 - 1991
Positions of trust and professional assignments
Member auditing group of the quality assurance audits of the Lahti Polytechnic
(2006) and University of Oulu (2009).
Evaluator of the EU seventh
framework programme security research proposals 2008.
Selected publications
Heikkilä, J.; Uusitalo, T.; Rantanen, E.; Lappalainen, J. Proactive
and flexible safety management - resilience in Finland.
The 5th
International Conference Workingonsafety.net (WOS 2010). Roeros, NO, 7 - 10
Sept. 2010. WOS, 5th International Conference on the road to vision zero? Book
of abstracts. NTNU Videre (2010), 6.
Kupi, E.; Keränen, J.; Mikkola, M.; Uusitalo, T. Integrating risk management into strategic planning in SMEs. European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2009. Prague, 7 - 10 Sept. 2009. Reliability, Risk and Safety: Theory and Applications. CRC Press. Leiden, NL (2009), 401 - 406.
Uusitalo, T.; Pentikäinen, H.; Koivisto, R. Critical
infrastructure protection - emerging security risks of complex systems - today
and tomorrow
Rouhiainen, Veikko (ed.), Scientific activities in
Safety & Security 2009. VTT. Espoo (2009), 18-19.
Uusitalo, T.; Koivisto, R.; Schmitz, W. Proactive risk assessment of critical infrastructures. Joint ESREL 2008 and 17th SRA-Europe Conference. Valencia, Spain, 22 - 25 Sept. 2008. Safety, Reliability and Risk Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications. European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA). London (2008), 2511 - 2517.
Mikkonen, P.; Uusitalo, T. Risk management in the context of implementing
integrated quality, safety and environment management systems.
11th
International Symposium. Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process
Industries, Loss Prevention 2004, 31 May - 3 June 2004, Praha. Czech Society
of Chemical Engineering and the Working Party on Loss Prevention and Safety
Promotion of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. Praha (2004),
1339 - 1344.
Uusitalo, T. & Takala, J. 1998. Internet resources, news groups and home page addresses. In: Herzstein, J. A., Bubb, W.B., Fleming, L.E., Harrington, J.M., Jeyaratnam, J. & Gradner, I.R., International Occupational and Environmental Medicine. St. Louis, Missouri. Mosby Inc. s. 703-709.
Uusitalo, T. 1998. Internet as a tool for disseminating health and safety information. In: Surfing for Safety. Proceedings of the Information Technology for the Health and Safety Professionals, 20th- 21st April 1998, Belfast. Belfast. The Irish Branches of The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health. s. 22-25.
Uusitalo, T., Levä, K. & Pekkola, P. 1998. Occupational health and safety management system - How to integrate SMEs as a part of the total management system. International Symposium From Protection to Promotion, Occupational Health and Safety in Small-scale Enterprises, Helsinki, Finland, May 4-6, 1998.
Uusitalo, T. & Chowpradith, L. 1995. Internet as a tool for distribution of occupational health and safety information. Asian-Pacific Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety 2, 2, s. 54-55.
Uusitalo, T. & Gold, D. 1994. Occupational safety and health auditing. Asian-Pasific Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety 1, 2, s. 46-47.
Uusitalo, T. & Mattila, M. 1989. Evaluation of industrial safety practices in five industries. In: Mital, A. (ed.). Advances in industrial ergonomics and safety I. London. Taylor & Francis. s. 353-358.
For complete list of publications, see Teuvo Uusitalo’s publications in the VTT Publication Register.