Benefits to Be Gained from FTA

There are several benefits of employing FTA for use as a safety assessment tool. These include [Pg.39]

The Fault Tree (FT) construction focuses the attention of the analyst on one particular undesired system failure mode, which is usually identified as the most critical with respect to the desired function (Andrews and Moss (2002)). [Pg.40]

The FT diagram can be used to help communicate the results of the analysis to peers, supervisors and subordinates. It is particularly useful in multi-disciplinary teams with the numerical performance measures. [Pg.40]

Qualitative analysis often reveals the most important system features. [Pg.40]

The qualitative and quantitative results together provide the decision-maker with an objective means of measuring the adequacy of the system design. [Pg.40]

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