ABSTRACT
This chapter presents various important aspects of maintenance, software, and robot safety. It covers maintenance safety, software safety, and robot safety in three separate subsections. In the maintenance safety subsection covered are facts, figures, and examples, reasons for safety-related problems in maintenance and factors responsible for dubious safety reputation in maintenance work, maintenance personnel safety and typical human behaviors, and useful guidelines for equipment designers to improve safety in maintenance. The software safety subsection covers facts and figures, software safety versus reliability, software hazard causing ways, and software hazard analysis methods. Finally, the robot safety subsection covers facts and figures, robot safety-related problems, types of robot accidents, and robot safeguard methods.
The chapter contains ten problems at the end of the chapter to test the reader’s comprehension in the area. Finally, it is added that the sources of most of the material presented in the chapter are given in its reference section. They will be useful to readers if they desire to delve more deeply into a specific area of interest.
