MIL-STD-882B programs

The hazard tracking, review requirements, and risk acceptance process are basically the same as for other MIL-STD-882B programs. 

In contrast, the Department of Energy s MORT-based approach provides excellent accident investigation, audit, and appraisal tools oriented to ongoing operations. Despite emphasis on the importance of the upstream process, however, system safety programs based on MORT tend to lack the early, detailed, systematic hazard identification and analysis efforts that are characteristic of MIL-STD-882B programs. 

Department of Defense, Military Standard System Safety Program Requirements, MIL-STD-882B, Washington, D.C., 1984... 

MIL-S-381308A revised and designated MIL-STD-882B, System Safety Program Requirements (1969)... 

Early system safety requirements were generated by the US. Air Force Ballistic System Division. Early air force documents provided the basis for MIL-STD-882 (July 1969), System Safety Program for Systems and Associated Subsystems and Equipment Requirements for. This document (and revisions MIL-STD-882A and MIL-STD-882B) became, and remain, the bible for the Department of Defense (DOD) system safety effort (Moriarty and Roland 1983). 

The most common and widespread approach to system safety is that taken by the DOD and DOD contractors. TTiey originally developed and implemented system safety programs. The DOD approach is based on MIL-STD-882B system safety program requirements. 

Familiarity with MIL-STD-882B is necessary in order to understand DOD system safety programs. This document was officially issued on 30 March 1984 to supercede MIL-STD-882A (28 June 1977) and was updated by Notice 1 on 1 July 1987. 

The DOD system safety programs tend to be more standardized than those of some other agencies, primarily because MIL-STD-882B serves as a foundation for the effort. However, considerable variation in programs, concepts, interpretations, definitions, and approaches occurs, even within the DOD community. This variability is most pronounced in the attempts of contractors to interpret and conform to system safety requirements. 

Although all approaches to system safety give considerable lip service to life cycle or cradle-to-grave or womb-to-tomb programs, in practice many programs based on MIL-STD-882B concentrate their efforts on preoperation phases. Once a system is in full production and fielded, very little additional system safety effort is made. 

The risk assessment code matrix shown in Figure 11-2 is typical of those used in military programs and very similar to the examples found in MIL-STD-882B. 

An element of the facility system safety effort not found in MIL-STD-882B and not typical of other programs is the control rating code (CRC). 

Figure 11-2 Risk assessment code matrix used in the facility system safety effort. It is typical of military programs and similar to the example matrices listed in MIL-STD-882B. (Source U.S. Army Facility System Safety Manual. Draft.)...

U.S. Army. Facility System Safety Manual Washington, DC HQ Safety, USACE. Draft. U.S. Department of Defense. 1984 (updated by Notice 1,1987). System Safety Program Reqmrements. MIL-STD-882B. Washington, DC Department of Defense. 

United States Department of Defense. 1984. MIL-STD-882B system safety program requirements.Washington, D.C. Department of Defense. 

According to MIL-STD-882B (Department of Defense, 1984) the SSPP must specify the four elements of an effective system-safety program ... 

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