Risk ,safety and liability

1. RISK ,SAFETY AND
LIABILITY
Chapter 8

2.  Literally: Risk is the possibility of suffering harm or loss and
danger.
 Professionally: it is any danger or probability of loss as a
result of inaccuracy or luck of professionalism from the
professionals.
 It is the threat or the danger which can potentially harm the
interest or the life of the public or certain individuals in the
public.
Safety & Risk Issues

3. Safety & Risk Issues
 Risk is the potential impact to an asset or some
characteristic of value that may arise from some
present process or from some future event.
 In professional risk assessments, risk combines the
probability of an event occurring with the impact that
event would be.

4. Safety & Risk Issues
 Safety means: the condition of being safe, freedom
from danger, risk, or injury.
 Safety is the condition of being protected against
physical, social, spiritual, financial, political,
emotional, occupational, psychological or other types
or consequences of failure, damage, error or harm.

5. Safety & Risk Issues
 Protection involves here both causing and exposure. It
can include physical protection or that of possessions.
 Safety is often in relation to some guarantee of a
standard of insurance to the quality and un-harmful
function of a thing or organization. It is used in order
to ensure that the thing or organization will do only
what it is wanted to do.

6. System Safety and Reliability in engineering
 System Safety and Reliability of
Engineering activities is an engineering
discipline.
 Continuous changes in technology,
environmental regulation, public safety
concerns make the analysis of complex
safety-critical systems more and more
demanding.

7. System Safety and Reliability in Engineering
 Safety and Risk management is most
important aspect of professionals. Simply
this evolves in public protection, well being
and the harmony between occupation and
the professional.
 Safety should be integral part of any
engineering activity; designing, construction
and developing software programs.

8. System Safety and Reliability in Engineering
 Removal of any possible risk should always be given the
priority.
 Our designs should be safe.
 Legal and professional standards of productivity should be applied.
 Potential dangers should be foreseen.
 Alternative design or other ways of doing that job should be
explored.
 Problems should be defined well.
 Potential solutions should be generated.
 Solutions should be tested to insure their applicability.
 The Best solution should always be the first.

9. Engineering Safety measures
Safety measures are activities and precautions taken to
improve safety or reduce risk. Common safety measures
include:
 1. Visual examination for dangerous situations such as
emergency exits blocked because they are being used as
storage areas.
 2. Visual examination for cracks,and loose connections.
 3. X-ray analysis to see inside a sealed object such as a
weld, a cement wall or an airplane outer skin.

10. Engineering Safety measures
 4. Destractive Testing of Samples.
 5. Implementation of standard protocols and
procedures so that activities are conducted in a known
way.
 6. Training of employees, vendors, product users.
 7. Instruction Manual, explaining how to use a product
or perform an activity.
 8. Instructional videos demonstrating proper use of
products.
 9. Examination of activities by specialists to minimize
physical stress or increase productivity.

11. Engineering Safety measures
 10. Government regulation, so suppliers know what
standards their product is expected to meet.
 11. Industry Regulation, so suppliers know what level of
quality is expected. Industry regulation is often imposed to
avoid potential government regulation.
 12. Statements of Ethics by industry organizations or an
individual company so its employees know what is
expected of them.
 13. Periodic evaluations of employees, departments, etc.

12. End