Safety engineering

protective clothing or equipment designed to help protect an individual from injury, Noise, infection, or other hazards

standardized data sheet describing a substance or product's hazards and safe handling procedures

area concerned with the safety, health and welfare of people at occupation

engineering discipline which assures that engineered systems provide acceptable levels of safety when using them, for concerned or nearby persons and assets

analysis with risk acceptance criteria or other decision parameters

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factor by which an engineered system's capacity is increased over the expected requirement to ensure safety in the face of error or uncertainty

failure analysis system used in engineering

model used in risk analysis and risk management illustrates that, with layered security, each layer provides protection from certain types of attacks but has weaknesses

determining the condition of in-service equipment in order to estimate when maintenance should be performed

ability of a structure to withstand physical strain

international standard for functional safety of electrical and/or electronic systems in production automobiles

fundamental right originated from public inquiry into chemical compositions of substances

special field of security engineering

identification of present hazards as the first step in a process to assess risk

In systems engineering, dependability is a measure of a system's availability, reliability, maintainability, and in some cases, other characteristics such as durability, safety and security. In real-time computing, dependability is the ability to provide services that can be trusted within a time-period. The service guarantees must hold even when the system is subject to attacks or natural failures.

cascading collapse of a building

engineered set of hardware and software controls especially used on critical process systems

international standard for electronic safety-related systems

system whose failure or malfunction may result in death, serious injury or other severe damage

DO-178C, Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification is the primary document by which the certification authorities such as FAA, EASA and Transport Canada approve all commercial software-based aerospace systems. The document is published by RTCA, Incorporated, in a joint effort with EUROCAE and replaces DO-178B. The new document is called DO-178C/ED-12C and was completed in November 2011 and approved by the RTCA in December 2011. It became available for sale and use in January 2012.

systematic technique for failure analysis

Accident-proneness is the idea that some people have a greater predisposition than others to experience accidents, such as car crashes and industrial injuries. It may be used as a reason to deny any insurance on such individuals.

device which indicates whether a physical shock or impact has occurred

a device meant to stop the burning of a fuel

laboratory procedure that estimates a material's rate of deterioration over time

book by Charles Perrow

area of a deployed military base devoted to open-air combustion of waste

use of locks and keys for sequential control of equipment and machinery to ensure safe operation

DO-178B, Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification is a guideline dealing with the safety of safety-critical software used in certain airborne systems. It was jointly developed by the safety-critical working group RTCA SC-167 of the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA) and WG-12 of the European Organisation for Civil Aviation Equipment (EUROCAE). RTCA published the document as RTCA/DO-178B, while EUROCAE published the document as ED-12B. Although technically a guideline, it was a de facto standard for developing avionics software systems until it was

test of a spacecraft's launch abort system