Engineering management, system safety

In the third part of the book (Chapter 7) we present the different sensor types and show the various fields of application, ranging from engine management to safety systems and all the way to comfort systems. 

Essentially all electronics systems in use - be it for engine management, in safety systems, or as convenience features - need one or more sensors as input to their signal processing. An overview by Fleming [2] counted 107 different sensor applications in the car a luxury car typically contains 100 or more sensors. Therefore the automotive sensor market has grown at least as well as the electronics market over the past two decades and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. 

To implement a system safety program, the personnel involved have to be properly trained. A comprehensive training program is particularly important until system safety courses are established in the curricula of engineering, management, and safety majors in colleges and universities. A recommended training plan is included in Chapter 9. 

To demonstrate the role of electronics for the areas like in-vehicle architectures, networking, engine management systems, vehicle safety systems, and infotainment systems... 

Many engineers confuse system safety with risk assessment and use the terms interchangeably. System safety is the assurance and management that the system is safe for all people, environment, and equipment. Risk assessment, like system safety engineering, can be used to determine how safe something is, but it also can be used to determine the various trade-off alternatives to lower the risk in a system. Risk in this case does not have to be related to safety it could just mean the risk of losing market share or delivering a product late. A question many of us face is how do I balance the business risks with the safety risks ... 

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An understanding of the management systems in place to control and direct the process safety of the facility can be obtained from reading engineering and administrative standards, guidelines, and procedures that shoiud be available in the background information supplied... 

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Accident defenses may be regarded as a series of barriers (engineered safety systems, safety procedures, emergency training, etc.). As barriers fail, incipient failures become real. Inappropriate management policies create inadequate PIFs, which give rise to opportunities foi ermr when initiated by local triggers or unusual conditions. 

Given the breadth of activities that management systems address, there will almost certainly be variations in how they are applied. For example, the system your company s human resources department uses to recruit and hire new employees will probably differ in form and structure from Central Engineerings system for safety design. However, by analyzing some representative management systems you can arrive at some broad common traits. 

Chapter 1, The Role of Human Error in Chemical Process Safety, discusses the importance of reducing human error to an effective process safety effort at the plant. The engineers, managers, and process plant personnel in the CPI need to replace a perspective that has a blame and punishment view of error with a systems viewpoint that sees error as a mismatch between human capabilities and demands. 

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