Common Mistakes in Fault Trees

A few mistakes you should try to avoid in constructing, quantifying, and evaluating fault trees are the following  

System Safety Engineering and Risk Assessment A Practical Approach 

Fault trees are extremely powerful methods to demonstrate your safety systems fault tolerance to an accident. The next time you want to demonstrate how many things must go wrong for an accident, use fault trees. Fault trees are great tools to educate a non engineer (e.g., in a lawsuit) of how hard it is for something to occur. 

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Stamatelatos, M., Caraballo, J., and Vesely, W. August 2002. Fault Tree Handbook with Aerospace Applications. Version 1.1. Washington, DC NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance NASA Headquarters. 

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Common mistakes in fault tree risk assessments... 

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