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Module 10: System Safety for the High-Potential Accident

System Safety

System Safety is a new and somewhat unknown discipline to the industrial safety man. Although
at times he may feel that it is of little or no value to him. There are no concepts in System Safety that
could be usefully applied to industrial safety.

Principles of System Safety
• a necessary pre-requisite with the study of System Safety is:

• a working knowledge of the principles of
systems of work;

• Job safety analysis; and

• An appreciation of how hazard and
operability studies.

Stages of System Safety

1. The pre-accident identification of potential hazard;

2. The timely incorporation of effective safety-related design and operational specification,
provisions and criteria.

3. The evaluation of design and procedures for compliance with applicable safety requirements and

criteria.

4. The continued surveillance over all safety aspects throughout the total life-span-including
disposal of the system.

Note: System Safety – therefore be seen to be an ordered monitoring program of the safety from a safety
standpoint.

The System

• The System Under Review

• Is the sum total of all component parts working together within a given environment, to
achieve a given purpose or mission within a given time over a given life-span.

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