ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the characteristics defines a task as safety critical and suggests an easy-to-use roadmap for screening and identifying safety critical tasks based on their level of criticality. To cope with the continuously changing risk picture, both the regulatory bodies and the industry actors develop their risk management frameworks, models and requirements to stay within acceptable limits of what is considered safe. To cope with the continuously changing risk picture, both the regulatory bodies and the industry actors develop their risk management frameworks, models and requirements to stay within acceptable limits of what is considered safe. One of these developments consists of more systematic considerations of how human performance contributes to major accident risk. A challenge frequently encountered by practitioners working with analysis and management of safety critical tasks is how to identify and select which tasks to devote the most attention and resources.
