Role of systems safety in maintaining affordable safety in the 1980's
Historically, the Department of Energy and its predecessors have used and supported the development of systems safety programs, practices, and principles, finding them by and large adequate, effective, and managerially efficient. Today, attempts are bing made to resolve increasingly complex environmental, safety, and health problems by turning to increasingly complex and detailed regulation as the primary governmental answer. It is increasingly doubtful that such an approach will provide management of these issues and problems that is either effective or efficient. Challenge is issued to those in systems safety to develop and apply systems safety principles and practices more broadly to total operational systems and not just to hardware and to environmental and health protection and not just to safety, so that the total universe of environmental, safety, and health can be managed effectively and efficiently with encouragement of innovation and creativity, using a relatively brief and concise, but adequate, regulatory base.
- Research Organization:
- Department of Energy, Washington, DC (USA); Sandia Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- EY-76-C-04-0789
- OSTI ID:
- 5830190
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-79-1671C; CONF-790703-2; TRN: 79-020954
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 4. international conference of the system safety society, San Francisco, CA, USA, 9 Jul 1979
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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