System safety professionals characteristics

More to the point, your question might be what are the characteristics of a system safety professional In this author s opinion, a system safety professional needs to go beyond the narrow definition of a safety professional as stated above and he or she should have the following attributes ... 

Earnest, R.E. Characteristics of proactive reactive safety systems. ASSE Professional Safety, November 1997. ECRI. A clinician s guide to surgical fires How they occur, how to prevent them, how to put them out. Health... 

One could ask the following Since the characteristics of serious injuries, the types of activities or exposures out of which many serious injuries occur, and the statistical trending concerning them have been known for some time, why have they not received more attention from the safety community There are two age-old beliefs, often promoted by safety professionals, that are barriers to making the necessary inquiry into the reality of design and engineering, operational systems, and cultural causal factors for incidents resulting in serious injury. Those beliefs, which derive from statements made in H. W. Heinrich s Industrial Accident Prevention, are ... 

Earnest, R.E. Characteristics of Proactive Reactive Safety Systems, ASSE Professional Safety, November 1997. 

Safety professionals and subject matter experts must be involved in the effort to identify and analyze risks. With this participation, systems engineers define the basic characteristics of the new system as a basis for identifying past projects that are similar in technology, function, design, etc. The data collection effort to map existing risks and lessons learned to new risks must be used to further define the system for comparison purposes. This data collection effort must be documented and be defensible. Data collection may involve a review of existing failure data, and interviews with existing system experts may be conducted. 

Earnest, R.E. November 1997. Characteristics of proactive and reactive safety systems. Professional Safety 42 27. 

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