System Safety Acronyms

SSDC System Safety Development Center Glossary of SSDC Terms and Acronyms, SSDC-28 (DOE)... 

In the practice of system safety engineering and management, as well as in the safety and health profession in general, numerous abbreviations and acronyms are used quite regularly. The following is a listing of those most frequently used or encountered, either in this text or in the system safety and/or safety and health disciplines in... 

The following is a list of acronyms used in the system safety field, as well as acronyms that a system safety analyst must be familiar with while working in various technical domains and on various systems ... 

The EMC for Functional Safety process described in the Guide can be applied to any electrical, electronic or programmable electronic entity that provides a function having a direct impact on safety. To avoid confusion with the many different terms used in electrical and electronic engineering (for example device, apparatus, system, safety system, installation, etc.) a new acronym EFS has been created for the Guide. 

Indeed, the influence of such acronyms and the use of safety management systems can be readily found in how people talk about safety within the context of its practice. For example, phrases like ... 

Written in everyday language, it clearly describes employees roles and responsibilities regarding every element of hazard communication and the Global Harmonized System (GHS). It even goes beyond the regulations to provide practical information on labeling. Safety Data Sheets, common acronyms and abbreviations, and day-to-day best practices. 

The United Nations led a global action to identify chemical hazards, classify chemical hazards logically, and communicate hazard information. This international activity led to The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals. The system has the acronym GHS. In the details, there are standard methods for labeling chemicals. There are also standards for Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) intended to communicate chemical properties and hazards. The United States recendy adopted this system. ... 

This paper describes a modular system of computer programs called SCALE. SCALE is an acronym for standardized case analysis for licensing evaluation. The system is being developed to perform criOcality safety, radiation shielding, and heat transfer analyses of shipping casks and other equipment and facilities associated with the nuclear fuel cycle. In this paper, emi aSls is placed on the criticality safety features of I ALE mid on the use of pin-lattice critical experiments in validating the SCALE system analytical sequences and data libraries. 

This chapter illustrated that training is a key to safety. The level of effort expended to develop training will play a key role in safety culture development. An important tool for safety training is the job safety analysis (JSA). JSAs have many different names and different acronyms, but no matter what you call them, they are used to identify on-the-job hazards and the safety systems that can nullify these hazards. Using JSAs as a training tool allows the team member to think in a way that analyzes each work task for potential hazards. Hazard recognition is an important initial step in hazard avoidance. 

Abbreviation The acronym SIS means safety instrumented system . We probably all know the subject by other names because of the different ways in which these systems have been applied. Here are some of the other names in use ... 

WSRC-TR-90-42-133, "Uniform Listing of Reactor Systems, Acronyms, and Safety Systems", December 13, 1990. 

The WSRC Reactor Technology Department has Issued a list of systems defined as "important to safety." WSRC-TR-90-42-133, "Uniform Listing of Reactor Systems, Acronyms, and Safety Systems" (Reference 12) defines the criteria for creating this list and includes the list of systems and equipment evaluated as important to safety. This list contains all the systems identified as safety-related in Section 5.6 of the SER. "Work Control Manual," RD-3.1 has established criteria and specific minimum requirements for maintenance activities on equipment or systems that are considered important to safety. These requirements include the use of Category 1 or 2 procedures or work instructions for the performance of the maintenance activities and the approval of the work package by Reactor Engineering and QA. 

As shown in Figure 1.1, the key building blocks of the bridge between the methodology of systems engineering and the tools of safety can be defined by the acronym M-T-M, which stands for... 

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