Industrial safety accident prevention, through system

C. W. Childs, in Industrial Accident Prevention Through System Safety, gives this brief history of the origins of system safety ... 

In spite of, or maybe because of, process industry accidents still occurring in various industries and the increasing complexity of industrial processes (especially with industrial control systems using cyber networks), the CCPS continues to push the envelope on process safety and safety in general with their Vision 2020. The purpose of Vision 2020 is to imagine what perfect process safety will look like. The vision is to have industry stakeholders to have demonstrable and actionable commitment to the competencies and processes to prevent, reduce, and mitigate process safety incidents (not just accidents). They do this through five tenets for industry and four societal themes (Center for Chemical Process Safety, 2013). Their five tenets for industry or core principles are... 

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