Short description Basic Guide to System Safety, Second Edition demonstrates how the various methods and techniques first developed under the principles of system safety engineering can best be applied to the every-day practice of occupational safety and health compliance. This book approaches the subject without assuming that the reader has an extensive background in system safety engineering.
From the contents Preface.
Acknowledgments.
PART I: THE SYSTEM SAFETY PROGRAM.
1. System Safety: An Overview.
2. System Safety Concepts.
3. System Safety Program Requirements.
4. The Industrial Safety Connection.
Chapter 5. Probability Theory and Statistical Analysis.
PART II: SYSTEM SAFETY ANALYIS: TECHNIQUES AND METHODS.
6. Preliminary Hazard Analysis.
7. Subsystem and System Hazard Analysis.
8. Operating and Support Hazard Analysis.
9. Energy Trace and barrier Analysis.
10. Failure Mode and Effect Analysis.
11. Fault or Functional Hazard Analysis.
12. Fault Tree Analysis.
13. Management Oversight and Risk Tree.
14. HAOP and What-If Analyses.
15. Special Use Analysis Techniques.
Epilogue.
Appendix A: Sources of Additional Information and Training.
