Engineering Safety

Fundamentals, Techniques, and Applications

B S Dhillon

• Publisher: WSPC
• Year: 2003
• eBook ISBN: 9789813102361
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Health Policy

Safety has become very important because each year a vast number of people die due to workplace and other accidents. For example, in the United States for the year 1996 as per the National Safety Council, there were 93,400 deaths and 20,700,000 disabling injuries due to workplace accidents, with a total loss of $121 billion. Today there are a large number of books available on safety, but to the best of the author's knowledge none covers both general and systems safety (i.e., at a significant depth) and application or specialized areas such as software safety, robot safety, health care safety, and maintenance safety. This book has been written to satisfy that vital need.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Author Biography
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Safety Mathematics and Reliability Basics
• Chapter 3 Workplace Accidents and Safety
• Chapter 4 Safety Management and Control
• Chapter 5 Safety Analysis Methods and Techniques
• Chapter 6 Risk Management
• Chapter 7 Human Factors in Safety
• Chapter 8 Safety Costing
• Chapter 9 Maintenance Safety
• Chapter 10 Software Safety
• Chapter 11 Robot Safety
• Chapter 12 Safety in Health Care Systems
• Index