Basic Guide to System Safety, 3rd Edition

This book provides guidance on including prevention through design concepts within an occupational safety and health management system.  Through the application of these concepts, decisions pertaining to occupational hazards and risks can be incorporated into the process of design and redesign of work premises, tools, equipment, machinery, substances, and work processes including their construction, manufacture, use, maintenance, and ultimate disposal or reuse.  These techniques provide guidance for a life-cycle assessment and design model that balances environmental and occupational safety and health goals over the life span of a facility, process, or product.

The new edition is expanded to include primer information on the use of safety assurance techniques in design and construction.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The System Safety Program
Chapter 1 System Safety: An Overview
Chapter 2 System Safety Concepts
Chapter 3 System Safety Program Requirements
Chapter 4 The Industrial Safety Connection
Chapter 5 Probability Theory and Statistical Analysis

Part 2 System Safety Analysis: Techniques and Methods
Chapter 6 Preliminary Hazard Analysis
Chapter 7 Subsystem and System Hazard Analyses
Chapter 8 Operating and Support Hazard Analysis
Chapter 9 Energy Trace and Barrier Analysis
Chapter 10 Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
Chapter 11 Fault or Functional Hazard Analysis
Chapter 12 Fault Tree Analysis
Chapter 13 Management Oversight and Risk Tree
Chapter 14 HAZOP and What-If Analyses
Chapter 15 Special Use Analysis Techniques

Appendix A Sources of Additional Information/Training
Appendix B Acronyms and Abbreviations