Applied Safety For Engineers

HAZOP, What If, Fault Tree Analysis FTA, Failure Mode & Effect Analysis FMEA with practical examples for SAFE operation

Engineering has experienced a technological revolution, but the basic engineering techniques applied in safety and reliability engineering, created in a simpler, analog world, have changed very little over the years. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Leveson proposes a new approach to safety – more suited to today's complex, sociotechnical, software-intensive world – based on modern systems thinking and systems theory. Revisiting and updating ideas pioneered by 1950s aerospace engineers in their System Safety concept, and testing her new model extensively on real-world examples, Leveson has created a new approach to safety that is more effective, less expensive, and easier to use than current techniques.