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Risk management strategy using a systems-based approach
System safety is a concept in safety engineering that calls for engineers to use a systems-based approach to developing risk management strategies. While traditional safety strategies focus on modifying systems to avoid the conditions that resulted in past system accidents, system safety analysis focuses on proactively identifying and analysing hazards before an accident can occur. Once these hazards are understood, engineers can then propose changes to the system to eliminate, control, and/or manage them throughout the life-cycle of the system. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: System safetyA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Next Frontiers of Aviation Safety: System-of-Systems SafetyInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: AirframeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: System safety assessment using safety entropyCited 16 times
- Go sideways: ARP4761A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Safety engineeringA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
System safety assessment using safety entropy
Neonatal ICU System Safety
Flare pilot system safety
Wearable Child safety System
International safety rating system
System Safety Approach to Robot Safety
Minning Safety System
FOOD SAFETY SYSTEM
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
AirframeMichael Crichton · 1996
Basic guide to system safetyJeffrey W. Vincoli · 1993
Safety Management Systems in AviationAlan J. Stolzer, Carl D. Halford · 2015
System safety engineering and risk assessmentNicholas J. Bahr · 1997
System safety for the 21st centuryRichard A. Stephans · 2004
Food safety for the 21st centuryWilliam H. Sperber · 2010
Reliability EngineeringAlessandro Birolini · 2004
Integrated management systems for constructionAlan Griffith · 2010
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
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- Reliability engineering Reliability engineering is a sub-discipline of systems engineering that emphasizes the ability of equipment to function without failure. Reliability is…
- Accident analysis Accident analysis is a process carried out in order to determine the cause or causes of an accident (that can result in single or multiple outcomes) so…
- Hazard analysis A hazard analysis is one of many methods that may be used to assess risk. At its core, the method entails describing a system object (such as a person…
- Failure mode and effects analysis Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA; often written with "failure modes" in plural) is the process of reviewing as many components, assemblies, and…
- Fault tree analysis Fault tree analysis (FTA) is a type of failure analysis in which an undesired state of a system is examined. This analysis method is mainly used in safety…
- Functional safety Functional safety is the part of the overall safety of a system or piece of equipment that depends on automatic protection operating correctly in response…