A System Safety Engineering Process

In STAMP, accidents and losses result from not enforcing safety constraints on behavior. Not only must the original system design incorporate appropriate constraints to ensure safe operations, but the safety constraints must continue to be enforced as changes and adaptations to the system design occur over time. This goal forms the basis for safe management, development, and operations. 

Safety starts with management leadership and commitment. Without these, the efforts of others in the organization are almost doomed to failure. Leadership creates culture, which drives behavior. 

Besides setting the culture through their own behavior, managers need to establish the organizational safety policy and create a safety control structure with appropriate responsibilities, accountability and authority, safety controls, and feedback channels. Management must also establish a safety management plan and ensure that a safety information system and continual learning and improvement processes are in place and effective. 

Chapter 13 discusses management s role and responsibihties in safety. 

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The components of a system safety engineering process based on STAMP. 

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