System safety principles: A multidisciplinary engineering perspective

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 283-294

  Saleh, Joseph H ^a   Marais, Karen B ^b   Favaró, Francesca M ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Defense in depth; Fail safe; Observability in depth; Safety margins; Safety principles; System safety

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; CIVIL DEFENSE; HAZARDS; INDUSTRY; OBSERVABILITY; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; TOOLS;

DEFENSE IN DEPTH; FAIL-SAFE; OBSERVABILITY-IN-DEPTH; SAFETY MARGIN; SAFETY PRINCIPLE; SYSTEM SAFETY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

EID: 84899927418     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2014.04.001     Document Type: Review

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