MOS 6625

Description

Advance study of system safety programs with an emphasis on risk control. Addresses basic and essential information about the identification, evaluation, analysis, and control of hazards in components, systems, subsystems, processes, and facilities.

Objectives

1. Discuss the elements of system safety, including evaluation of a system for its state of safety over its life cycle, determination if that state is acceptable, evaluation of countermeasures, and make decisions about the use of the system.
2. Describe the differences between posteriori safety and a priori safety.
3. Explain management methods that are used for achieving a satisfactory state of safety, such as the elements of the System Safety Program Plan (SSPP).
4. Identify safety data analysis methods that are used for achieving a satisfactory state of safety.
5. Explain the following quantitative methods that may be used in safety data analysis: correlation, regression and analysis of variance.
6. Depict statistical methods for the following distributions: binomial, multinomial, hyper geometric, Poisson, normal, lognormal and Weibull.
7. List several decision and evaluation tools from engineering and business that are most useful in safety evaluation and risk analysis.
8. Summarize the basic elements of hazard analysis.
9. Characterize the latest thinking in the fields of fault tree analysis, sneak circuit analysis and software hazard analysis.
10. Illustrate decision methods for safety, including Delphi , committee, decision, metric, matrix, hierarchical, and multi-attribute methods.

PreRequisites

MA 1150

Textbook(s)

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