AN INTRODUCTION TO

ENGINEERING SAFETY
MANAGEMENT
BY: GROUP 1

ENGINEERING SAFETY

The Safety of
Engineered
artifacts and
systems of
artifacts.
The way in which
safety is managed,
controlled or
engineered.

PRACTICAL ISSUES

Management
Control of Cost
Quality to meet
Objectives
Task Decisions of an
Engineer
1. The set of decisions as
to what is to be made
2. The set of Decisions as
how it is to be made and
ensuring that it is made.

WHAT CAN SOCIETY EXPECT?

Safety Freedom from unacceptable personal

harm.
Risk The combined effect of chances of
occurrence of some undesirable event.
Hazard A set of conditions in the operation
of a product or a system with potential for
initiating an accident sequence.

WORLD VIEW

Everything we think and

do depends on the way
we look the world.
We attribute meaning to
something by interpreting
it in the light of our
experience and education.
If this world view is
adopted then we must
reexamine the way in
which we identify the
systems we wish to
design, build and manage.

SCIENCE
Science helps us to
organize experience to
enable some sort of
prediction.
Development of Scientific
Knowledge
1. Observation and
Experiment
2. Inductive Generalization
3. Hypothesis
4. Attempted Verification
5. Proof or Disproof
6. Knowledge

ENGINEERING

A problem-solving process which applies scientific and

mathematical knowledge.
An important skill of an Engineer is to be able to make
judgments about the quality and applicability of these
knowledge.
Three Components of Engineering Knowledge
1. Scientific Knowledge
2. Application
3. Heuristics

THE QUALITIES OF TRUTH AND

SAFETY

For a Scientist, the truth

is a quality of knowledge
that includes prediction,
explanation, precision,
simplicity, and
abstraction.
For an Engineer safety is
a quality of an artifact
that includes function,
safety, economy,
reliability and
environment
friendliness.

INCOMPLETENESS AND UNCERTAINTY MANAGEMENT

In theoretical predictions of
risk based on scientific
engineering knowledge the
population of possible events
is infinite.
There is always a logical
possibility that anything can
happen.
Even though the science of
Engineering will allow us to
make some prediction of
risk, they are inevitably
partial and incomplete and
the emphasis must be on
management of safety.

QUALITY ASSURANCE

Quality is the standard of

something as measured
against other things of
similar kind.
The public and society at
large require safety and
other environmental
considerations to be
covered and they require
conformance with the
appropriate laws,
regulations and other
policies

VIDEO
PRESENTATION

ENGINEERING SAFETY MANAGEMENT

FUNDAMENTALS

ORGANIZATION
CHANGES
PROJECTS

ORGANIZATION

SAFETY
RESPONSIBILITY
SAFETY CULTURE
COMPETENCE AND
TRAINING
WORKING WITH
SUPPLIERS
COMMUNICATING
SAFETY-RELATED INFOS
CO-ORDINATION

CHANGES

DEFINING CHANGES
IDENTIFYING
HAZARD
ASSESING RISK
REDUCING RISK
SAFETY
REQUIREMENTS
EVIDENCE OF SAFETY
AUTHORIZING
CHANGES

PROJECTS

ESM FROM START TO

FINISH
SAFETY PLANNING
SYSTEMATIC
PROCESSES AND
GOOD PRACTICE
CONFIGURATION
MANAGEMENT
RECORDS
INDEPENDENT
PROFESSIONAL
REVIEW

THE END

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