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Principles of engineering safety: Risk and uncertainty reduction

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  • Möller, Niklas
  • Hansson, Sven Ove

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This article provides a systematised account of safety engineering practices that clarifies their relation to the goal of safety engineering, namely to increase safety. We list 24 principles referred to in the literature of safety engineering, dividing them into four major categories: Inherently safe design, Safety reserves, Safe fail and Procedural safeguards. It emerges from this systematisation that important aspects of these methods can be better understood with the help of the distinction between risk and uncertainty.

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  • Möller, Niklas & Hansson, Sven Ove, 2008. "Principles of engineering safety: Risk and uncertainty reduction," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 93(6), pages 798-805.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:reensy:v:93:y:2008:i:6:p:798-805
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2007.03.031
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