CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SYSTEM SAFETY：DEFINITION OF TERMS AND CONCEPTS

System safety is an engineering discipline that is applied during system design and development of a product or system in order to identify hazards and reduce the risk of accidents. System safety is used in fields such as commercial aircraft, nuclear power plants, weapon systems, and medical devices. This reference for system safety engineers, analysts, and managers begins with a definition of system safety and a rationale for its use and guidelines for when system safety should be applied, costs of system safety, and a history of the field. Alphabetical entries give definitions, explanations, and examples of system safety terms and concepts. Most entries are about a paragraph long, with some a full page and some only one sentence. There is also a section of the book reviewing system safety specialty areas; much of the information in this section is in outline format. The book includes b&w diagrams and tables and a list of acronyms. Ericson, editor of the Journal of System Safety, was president of the System Safety Society 2001-2003. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Clifton A. Ericson II has forty-five years of experience in the field of system safety, software safety, and fault tree analysis. Mr. Ericson was president of the System Safety Society (2001?2003) and won the Society's President's Achievement Award in 1998, 1999, and 2004 for outstanding work in the system safety field. He is the editor of the Journal of System Safety and author of Hazard Analysis Techniques for System Safety, also published by Wiley.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Author Biography.

Chapter 1. Introduction to System Safety.

Chapter 2. System Safety Terms and Concepts.

Chapter 3. System Safety Specialty Areas.

Chapter 4. System Safety Acronyms.

Index.