ABSTRACT
At that time, the cost of even a single accident became prohibitively high, and lessons learned from accidents were no longer acceptable. There needed to be a new approach to safety, a proactive rather than the traditional reactive approach. Industrial safety has developed on the basis of mishap records and has been classified by hazard types. System safety, on the other hand, has developed to identify the hazards that may be inherent in a product or operation before any mishap happens, and as such is based on analytical procedures. The goal of system safety is to make a product “first-time safe,” i.e., to identify and mitigate any hazard that may result in mishap later on.
