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The System Safety Skeptic

Lessons Learned in Safety Management and Engineering

By: Terry L. Hardy

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The System Safety Skeptic

Lessons Learned in Safety Management and Engineering

By: Terry L. Hardy

Advanced technologies and increasing automation have forever changed how systems work and how people interact with them. Transportation systems, energy extraction and production systems, medical devices, and manufacturing processes are increasingly complex. With the use of these complex systems comes increased potential for harm to humans, property, and the environment. System safety is a widely accepted management and engineering approach to analyze and address risks in these complex systems. When used correctly, system safety methods can provide tremendous benefits, focusing resources to reduce risk and improve safety. But poor system safety analyses can lead to overconfidence, and can result in a misunderstanding of the potential for harm. The System Safety Skeptic describes critical aspects of the discipline of system safety, including: Safety planning Hazard identification Hazard risk assessment and associated risk decision making Risk reduction and hazard controls Risk reduction verification Hazard tracking and anomaly reporting Safety management and culture Accidents in multiple industries and organizations are used to illustrate potential missteps in the system safety process, including: Failure to plan and implement systematic safety efforts, and failure to plan for emergencies Failure to accurately identify the hazards and what can go wrong Underestimating the chances that an accident could happen Underestimating the worst possible outcomes Overestimating the effectiveness of safeguards Failure to properly verify that safeguards actually work Failure to learn from the past Failure of the organization to adequately manage system safety efforts This book provides hundreds of lessons learned in safety management and engineering, drawing from examples from many industries as well as the author's years of experience in the field. These real-world lessons help foster a healthy skepticism toward safety analysis and management in order to prevent future accidents.

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Software and System Safety

By: Terry L. Hardy

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Software and System Safety

By: Terry L. Hardy

System safety is a widely accepted management and engineering approach to analyze and address risks in complex systems in order to prevent accidents. Because software and computing systems are integral to most systems, software safety has become a critical component of an overall system safety effort. Software and System Safety discusses critical elements of the discipline of system safety and shows how software and computing systems fit in the system safety process. Software-specific aspects of the system safety process are addressed to show concerns common to complex systems. The many accidents and incidents presented in this book illustrate important lessons learned and show how software-related hazards can be misidentified, software risks can be improperly assessed, hazard controls may be misapplied, and software and system testing may not effectively verify that the risk had been reduced. The lessons learned come from a variety of industries and organizations, and include the author’s personal experience. The real-world lessons provided in this book can be used to improve existing software safety and system safety efforts, and can help when planning new system safety programs.

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1468574701

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Hold Onto Your Celestial Dreams

By: Terry Hardy Olsen

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Hold Onto Your Celestial Dreams

By: Terry Hardy Olsen

Temple marriages are supposed to last forever...right? Then why do so many of them end in divorce? In an effort to learn what it takes to have a marriage withstand the test of time and eternity, as well as discover how to capture the sparkle and magic seen between more seasoned couples, I put in countless hours of study, prayer and application. This book has been a labor of love, which includes those insights and discoveries that I wish to share with all who fervently desire to see theirs and their loved ones Celestial dreams come true. - Terry Olsen

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The System Safety Skeptic

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