Military Standard—System Safety Program

U S. Department of Defense, MIL-STD-882-C, "Military Standard System Safety Program Requirements," Washington, DC, January 1993. 

Department of Defense (U.S.), Military Standard System Safety Program Requirements. MIL-STD (w/notice 1), Washington, D.C., 1987. 

Several texts include hazard analysis and risk assessment decision matrices. Every matrix I found has been adopted from those included in what was originally known as Military Standard—System Safety Program Requirements, MlL-STD-882. Its most recent version is now named Standard Practice for System Safety, MIL-STD-882D, 2000. Influence of that standard will be obvious in the remainder of this chapter. 

Military Standard, (1999) Department of Defence, Military Standards System Safety Program Requirements , MIL-STD-882D, USA America. 

The HA safety technique is described in MIL-STD-882C Military Standard System Safety Program Requirements. This standard provides uniform requirements in a system safety program to identify hazards of a systan and to impose design requirements and management controls to prevent mishaps. Early hazard identification and elimination or reduction of associated risk are essential to a formal safety program. 

MIL-STD-882C Military Standard System Safety Program Reqnirements, 19 January 1993. 

The primary document outlining risk assessment methods in the U.S. Department of Defense is a Military Standard, Ref. 39. This document requires a well-documented system safety program, based on risk assessment methods to be included in all new Department of Defense systems and facilities. Hazards analyses of the systems are mandated by this publication. 

MIL-STD-882B Military Standard 882B, System Safety Program Requirements (DOD)... 

Military Handbook (MIL-HDBK)-516B, Airworthiness Certification, DoD Handbook, delineates the U.S. military aircraft airworthiness certification process. It also contains a list of the typical certification data required for airworthiness certification, which leads to a flight clearance. It includes a section on system safety, a system safety program (SSP), and a software safety program (SwSP). System safety generally provides the safety evaluation of hardware and software for airworthiness flight clearance recommendations. System safety is involved in ensuring that the Aircraft Airworthiness Authority s standards are satisfied for the airworthiness authority involved. 

MIL STD 882D a military standard that specifically deals with system safety techniques and program requirements. 

System safety is a mishap risk management process, whereby mishap risk is identified through hazards, and if the risk does not meet the established level of acceptability, design action is taken to reduce the risk to an acceptable level. For various reasons, it is often impossible to eliminate mishap risk in many systems. System safety should be involved in establishing the criteria and constraints for acceptable risk for system programs. Military standard (MIL-STD)-882 identifies the criteria for four levels of risk high, serious, medium, and low, each of which is accepted by a different level of decision authority. 

Checklist techniques have been widely used. Lee and Rose (1971) proposed a system which utilizes a standardized survey form for use by local, state, and federal governments. The data were collected in a format which allowed for it to be coded and recorded on tape for future computer analysis. Erke et al. (1983) developed a checklist on occupational safety for use in military settings. Tuttle et al. (1974) provided a summary of checklists to aid independent observers in detecting potentially hazardous situations and in developing programs to eliminate them. Checklists cover such broad areas as the mental and physical demands of work, space requirements, the mental and physical demands of the work, information flow, environmental load, and the organization of work. 

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