SAFER BY DESIGN: Reducing Hazards Through Better Designs

SAFER BY DESIGN: Reducing Hazards Through Better Designs

The onus is on design engineers to improve the level of safety in their designs. To accomplish this, the authors say, designers should draw on methodologies developed by the safety community. Key among them: preliminary hazara analysis, failure modes and effects analysis, and fault tree analysis.

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Veröffentlicht in:Professional safety 1998-02, Vol.43 (2), p.29-33
Hauptverfasser: MAIN, BRUCE W., McMURPHY, KRISTEN J.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Accident prevention
Design
Design engineering
Designers
Guidelines
Liability insurance
Machinery
Product design
Product development
PRODUCT SAFETY
Safety management
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Zusammenfassung:The onus is on design engineers to improve the level of safety in their designs. To accomplish this, the authors say, designers should draw on methodologies developed by the safety community. Key among them: preliminary hazara analysis, failure modes and effects analysis, and fault tree analysis.
ISSN:0099-0027
2163-6176