Hazard Analysis Techniques for System Safety
Chapter One
System Safety
1.1 INTRODUCTION
We live in a world comprised of systems and risk. When viewed from an engineering
perspective, most aspects of life involve systems. For example, houses are a type
of system, automobiles are a type of system, and electrical power grids are another
type of system. Commercial aircraft are systems that operate within an economical
transportation system and a worldwide airspace control system. Systems have
become a necessity for modern living.
With systems and technology also comes exposure to mishaps because systems
can fail or work improperly resulting in damage, injury, and deaths. The possibility
that a system fails and results in death, injury, damage, and the like is referred to as
mishap risk. For example, there is the danger that a traffic light will fail, resulting in
the mishap of another auto colliding with your auto. Automobiles, traffic, and traffic
lights form a unique system that we use daily, and we accept the mishap risk potential
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