Safety and Reliability Safe Societies in a Changing World collects the papers presented at the 28th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2018 in Trondheim, Norway, June 17-21, 2018. The contributions cover a wide range of methodologies and application areas for safety and reliability that contribute to safe societies in a changing world. These methodologies and applications include: - foundations of risk and reliability assessment and management- mathematical methods in reliability and safety- risk assessment - risk management- system reliability- uncertainty analysis- digitalization and big data- prognostics and system health management- occupational safety- accident and incident modeling- maintenance modeling and applications- simulation for safety and reliability analysis- dynamic risk and barrier management- organizational factors and safety culture- human factors and human reliability- resilience engineering- structural reliability- natural hazards- security- economic analysis in risk managementSafety and Reliability Safe Societies in a Changing Worldwill be invaluable to academics and professionals working in a wide range of industrial and governmental sectors: offshore oil and gas, nuclear engineering, aeronautics and aerospace, marine transport and engineering, railways, road transport, automotive engineering, civil engineering, critical infrastructures, electrical and electronic engineering, energy production and distribution, environmental engineering, information technology and telecommunications, insurance and finance, manufacturing, marine transport, mechanical engineering, security and protection, and policy making.