System Safety for the 21st Century

Foreword xiii
 
Preface xv
 
Acknowledgments xvii
 
About The Companion Website xix
 
Part I Introduction to System Safety 1
 
1. The History of System Safety 3
 
The 1960s--Mil-Std-882, DoD, and Nasa 4
 
The 1970s--The Management Oversight and Risk Tree 4
 
The 1980s--Facility System Safety 5
 
The 1990s--Risk-Based Process System Safety 6
 
The 2000s--Quest for Intrinsic Safety 6
 
The 2010s--Risk Management Integration 7
 
The 2020s--Improvements and International Approach to Risk Maturing 7
 
Review Questions 8
 
Bibliography 8
 
2. Fundamentals of System Safety 9
 
Basic Definitions 9
 
Fundamental Safety Concepts 9
 
System Safety Fundamentals 13
 
System Safety Tenets 18
 
Review Questions 19
 
Bibliography 19
 
3. Current Approaches to System Safety 21
 
Department of Defense 21
 
Nasa 26
 
Facility System Safety 28
 
The Chemical Industry 31
 
Department of Energy 32
 
Review Questions 34
 
Bibliography 35
 
4. Problem Areas 37
 
Standardization 38
 
Risk Assessment Codes 39
 
Data 40
 
Communications 40
 
Life Cycle 41
 
Education and Training 41
 
Human Factors 41
 
Software 42
 
Review Questions 42
 
Bibliography 42
 
5. The Future of System Safety 43
 
More First-Time
 
Safe Systems 43
 
Cost-Effective Management Tools 43
 
The Face of System Safety 44
 
Proactive or Reactive? 47
 
Review Questions 47
 
Bibliography 47
 
Part II System Safety Program Planning and Management 49
 
6. Establishing the Groundwork 51
 
Generic Model 51
 
Product Safety 51
 
Dual Programs 52
 
Planning and Development Methodology 52
 
Review Questions 53
 
7. Tasks 55
 
Hazard

Richard A. Stephans semi-retired consultant, former PE, CSP (and Board member of BCSP), CEM, has been an International System Safety Society member for more than thirty years and a Society Fellow, who has served in local and national Society positions, and received several Society awards to include Engineer of the Year. He is coeditor of the System Safety Analysis Handbook, a publication of the International System Safety Society. Stephans is a retired Army Colonel, Paratrooper, Ranger, nuclear weapons specialist, and Vietnam War veteran.