Basic Guide to System Safety ppt

[...]... the information provided here is introductory in scope, intended to merely acquaint the reader with the system safety approach to hazard analysis and hazard risk reduction Basic Guide to System Safety, by Jeffrey W Vincoli Copyright # 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Inc 1 1 System Safety: An Overview 1.1 BACKGROUND The idea or concept of system safety can be traced to the missile production industry of the... When such risk of hazard cannot be totally eliminated, as is often the case, it becomes a fundamental function of the safety professional to provide recommendations to control those hazards in an effort to reduce the associated risk to the lowest acceptable levels It is the intention of this Basic Guide to System Safety to demonstrate the effectiveness of the system safety process in identifying and... feasible to expect a basic guidebook to contain all possible technical information on any subject, especially one as complex as system safety However, those who require or perhaps desire only a basic understanding of a field similar to but distinctly separate from their current area of specialization will find the second edition of Basic Guide to System Safety a valuable reference source and introductory... a system or set of systems (especially when a given system is known to be hazardous in nature) While no system can be considered completely or 100% reliable, system safety is an attempt to get as close as practical to this goal Over the years, numerous techniques and methods used to formally accomplish the system safety task have also evolved and have further expanded our capabilities to examine systems,... (managers or supervisors), or safety will not succeed Basic Guide to System Safety, by Jeffrey W Vincoli Copyright # 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Inc 25 26 SYSTEM SAFETY PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS This safety charter allows for safety to be a productive and functioning element of an organization’s daily operations It demonstrates that effective safety management, including the system safety effort, requires not... require the bidders to implement a system safety program and provide a system safety program plan (SSPP), which defines the methods by which the contractor intends to perform the system safety effort Routinely, the government will require the SSPP to contain, at the very least, the items specified in MIL-STD-882 The SSPP will typically include explanations of the contractor’s intended system safety program... results from a failure of the system or one of its many subtle interfaces Elements such as these became the catalyst for the development of systems engineering, out of which eventually grew the concept of system safety Figure 1.1 shows a simplification of the basic elements Basic Guide to System Safety, by Jeffrey W Vincoli Copyright # 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Inc 3 4 SYSTEM SAFETY: AN OVERVIEW PROJECT... own company to literally sell the safety program to upper management Unfortunately, this may also be the case when system safety programs are proposed for implementation With system safety, however, there is a slight advantage If approached properly, implementation of a system safety program can be shown as a cost savings strategy in the long term The very concept behind system safety is to identify... attempt to demonstrate the value of a system safety program The point is that system safety can be sold to upper management, if properly proposed In fact, it is suggested here that gaining management acceptance for system safety might possibly be less difficult than obtaining approvals for some of the most basic elements of a well-rounded occupational safety and heath program 3.3 THE SYSTEM SAFETY EFFORT...xii PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION to facilitate the introduction of system safety concepts into the industrial safety setting It should be noted from the outset that it is not and never has been the intention of the Basic Guide to System Safety to provide any level of expertise beyond that of novice Those practitioners and users .