Systems Approaches to Safety NASA and the Space Shuttle Disasters

SYSTEMS APPROACHES TO SAFETY NASA AND THE SPACE SHUTTLE DISASTERS 

System safety is a subdiscipline of system engineering that developed after World War II in response to the same factors that had driven the development of system 

One unique feature of system safety, as conceived by its founders, is that preventing accidents and losses requires extending the traditional boundaries of engineering. Lederer wrote  

User Associations, Unions, Insurance Companies, Courts 

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