Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Practice
Hugh Outhred
Contents
Ethical basis for concern for safety
Concepts of safety & risk
Risk and decision making
Variability in attitudes to risk
Socially responsible engineering:
Risk management
Design for safety
Facilitate informed choice by user
Total cost
(direct plus indirect costs)
Indirect cost
Direct cost (repairs, litigation,
(including safety features) damaged reputation)
Risk
Minimum total cost
ELEC4011 - Lecture 7: The Engineer's Concern for
Safety 10
Risk-response matrix
Likelihood No prior Has occurred Has occurred Happens Happens
of incident experience occasionally recently annually several times
Consequence per year
Minimal
impact
Slight impact
Manage for
e.g. minor continuous
injury improvement
Considerable
impact, e.g Initiate risk
major injury reduction
Major
impact, e.g.
measures
fatality Intolerable
National
impact, e.g.
multiple
fatality