Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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808273 | Reliability Engineering & System Safety | 2008 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
This article provides a systematised account of safety engineering practices that clarifies their relation to the goal of safety engineering, namely to increase safety. We list 24 principles referred to in the literature of safety engineering, dividing them into four major categories: Inherently safe design, Safety reserves, Safe fail and Procedural safeguards. It emerges from this systematisation that important aspects of these methods can be better understood with the help of the distinction between risk and uncertainty.
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Authors
Niklas Möller, Sven Ove Hansson,