Basic Guide to System Safety (eBook)

Jeffrey W. Vincoli, CSP is currently the Manager of Environmental, Safety and Health Compliance Assurance for Bechtel Corporation. Jeff has over three decades of experience in the practice of occupational and environmental safety and health to include work in system safety analysis, accident and incident investigation, professional training and consulting services, and hazard recognition and assessment. He is a Professional Member of the American Society of Safety Engineers and has assisted in a number of task force assignments and appointed positions focusing on improving the practice of occupational safety and health on a global basis. He has conducted safety reviews and analyses, investigations and training at major construction and engineering projects located on six continents. Jeff is the author of eight published books with three different publishing houses and more than two dozen articles in professional trade journals.

Introduction

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 Analyses

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

Epilogue

Appendix 1 Sources of Additional Information/Training

Appendix 2 Acronyms and Abbreviations