The system safety concept calls for a risk management strategy based on identification, analysis of hazards and application of remedial controls using a systems-based approach.[1] This is different from traditional safety strategies which rely on control of conditions and causes of an accident based either on the epidemiological analysis or as a result of investigation of individual past accidents.[2] The concept of system safety is useful in demonstrating adequacy of technologies when difficulties are faced with probabilistic risk analysis.[3] The underlying principle is one of synergy: a whole is more than sum of its parts. Systems-based approach to safety requires the application of scientific, technical and managerial skills to hazard identification, hazard analysis, and elimination, control, or management of hazards throughout the life-cycle of a system, program, project or an activity or a product.[1] "Hazop" is one of several techniques available for identification of hazards.
- ^ a b Harold E. Roland; Brian Moriarty (1990). System Safety Engineering and Management. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0471618160.
- ^ Jens Rasmussen, Annelise M. Pejtersen, L. P. Goodstein (1994). Cognitive Systems Engineering. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0471011983.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Baruch Fischhoff (1995). Risk Perception and Communication Unplugged : Twenty Years of Process. Risk Analysis, Vol 15, No.2.