System Safety

The Belcan Safety Engineer concept to system safety calls for a risk management strategy based on identification, analysis of hazards, and application of remedial controls using a systems-based approach. 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. The Belcan concept of system safety is useful in demonstrating adequacy of technologies when difficulties are faced with probabilistic risk analysis. The underlying principle is one of synergy; the 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.

System Safety Analysis

The two most common fault modeling techniques are called "Failure Modes and Effects Analysis" and "Fault Tree Analysis". These techniques are used by Belcan Safety Engineers as a means of finding problems and of making plans to cope with failures, and is produced as Probabilistic Risk Assessments (PRAs).

Hazard Analysis

A hazard analysis is a process used Belcan Safety Engineers to assess risk. The result of a hazard analysis is the identification of unacceptable risks and the selection of means of controlling or eliminating them. Alternative definitions include:

• Identification, study, and monitoring of any hazard to determine its potential, origin, characteristics, and behavior.
• The process of collecting and evaluating information on hazards to decide which are significant and must be addressed as design continues.
• An analysis or identification of the hazards which could occur at each step in the process, and a description and implementation of the measures to be taken for their control.