: Hubert Keller, Wolf-Dieter Pilz, Bernd Schulz-Forberg, Christian Langenbach
: Technical Safety - An Attribute of Quality An Interdisciplinary Approach and Guideline
: Springer-Verlag
: 9783319686257
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: CHF 87.10
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: Maschinenbau, Fertigungstechnik
: English
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This book focuses on technical safety, means of expanding the current procedures, and making the related risks more predictable. It identifies the 'hidden commonalities' of the various technical safety concepts and formulates a corresponding procedure, applicable across disciplines, in a single guideline.

The future is now: we constantly face change through science, research and technologies, change through industrial development, and new innovations and complexities. Our society fundamentally depends on technical systems, infrastructures and interconnected smart components, in every corner of the human environment. And these systems bring with them the need for technical safety. The risks of extending what is technically feasible have to be identified and analyzed at an early stage so as to avoid and/or mitigate potential harm by means of appropriate countermeasures.

Every technical field interprets technical safety in its own way. However, if a safety concept is to be comprehensively applied, it must be compatible with all technical fields - a challenge this book successfully addresses.

 

Supporting Organizations and People5
Contents7
1 Preamble9
2 Development of Technical Safety12
3 Interdisciplinary Approach16
3.1 Need for a Safety Methodically Concept16
3.1.1 The Need for Action in Safety Engineering16
3.1.2 Introduction to the Application Area Safety Engineering18
3.1.3 Reasons for this Publication19
3.1.4 The General Framework for Technical Safety21
3.1.5 Legal Basis of Technical Safety22
3.1.6 Ethical Principles24
3.2 Generating Safety25
3.2.1 Principles of Safety Engineering25
3.2.1.1 Safety—An Interdisciplinary Task25
3.2.1.2 Application of the System-Technical Phase Concept29
3.2.1.3 The Role of the Individual in the Safety of Complex Socio-technical Systems30
3.2.2 Procedures for an Interdisciplinary Safety Methodically Concept32
3.2.2.1 General Outline32
3.2.2.1.1 General Agreements on Safety Engineering33
3.2.2.1.2 Requirements of the Procedure for Safety-Compliant Design34
3.2.2.1.3 Safety Methodically Work Steps in Project Management34
3.2.2.2 Modules of the Safety Methodically Concept35
3.2.2.3 Human Factors Engineering36
3.2.2.4 Evaluation of Failure Prevention from the Interdisciplinary Perspective38
3.2.2.5 Criteria for an Interdisciplinary Holistic Safety Concept41
3.2.2.6 Passive and Active Safety Measures46
3.2.2.7 Controlling Failure Mechanisms47
3.2.2.8 Generating Safety According to the Phase Approach48
3.2.3 Implications of a Safety Methodically Concept50
3.2.3.1 Transfer of the Safety Standard to Technologically Comparable Products51
3.2.3.2 Transfer of the Safety Standard to Technologically Further Developed Products52
3.2.3.3 Transfer of the Safety Standard to Technologically Innovative Products52
3.3 Limits of Safety53
3.3.1 Socially Accepted and State-Defined Limits54
3.3.2 Unattainability of Absolute Safety56
3.3.3 The Understanding of Risk57
3.3.4 Factual Relationship Between Risk, Safety Engineering and Technical Safety58
3.3.5 Safety-Engineering Feasibility59
3.3.5.1 Generally Accepted Sound Engineering Practice60
3.3.5.2 State of the Art61
3.3.5.3 State of Scientific and Technical Knowledge61
3.3.5.4 Methodology for Determining the Limits of Safety62
3.4 Verifiability of Safety64
3.4.1 Limits of Verifiability64
3.4.1.1 Responsibility64
3.4.1.1.1 Types of Responsibility64
3.4.1.1.2 Conflict Between Economic Constraints and Technical Necessity65
3.4.1.1.3 Priorities in Deciding Responsibility Conflicts66
3.4.2 Learning as a Continuous Task66
3.4.2.1 Feed-Forward Control of Safety and Reliability67
3.4.2.2 Feedback Control of Safety and Reliability67
3.4.2.3 System of Organizational Learning68
3.4.2.4 Determination of the State of the Art as Learning Scheme68
3.4.2.4.1 Conditions for the Determination Process69
3.4.2.4.2 Steps in the Determination Process70
3.4.2.4.3 Decision-Making70
3.4.3 Controlling Technical Safety in the Product Life Cycle71
3.4.3.1 Phase-Based Pursuance of Technical Safety71
3.4.3.2 Organization of Verification72
3.4.3.2.1 Elements of Verification72
3.4.3.2.2 Grading of Verification72
3.4.3.3 The Modular Concept of the European Union73
3.4.3.4 Control Directive of the European Union74
3.4.3.5 Planning Process74
3.4.3.5.1 Objective and Purpose75
3.4.3.5.2 Materials and Sampling Procedures76
3.4.3.5.3 Verifiability of Requirements76
3.4.3.5.4 Consideration of the Potential Conflict Between Cost-Effectiveness and Technical Safety77
3.4.3.5.5 Responsibilities78
3.4.3.6 Implementation Process78
3.4.3.6.1 Objective and Purpose78
3.4.3.6.2 Hazard Analysis80
3.4.3.6.3 Verifiability of Requirements80
3.4.3.6.4 Inspection and Approval of the Planning Documents81
3.4.3.6.5 Traceability of Documentation81
3.4.3.6.6 Approval Procedure82
3.4.3.6.7 Utilization of Materials82
3.4.3.6.8 Market Surveillance/State Supervision83
3.4.3.7 Operation Process83
3.4.3.7.1 Objective and Purpose83
3.4.3.7.2 Approval84
3.4.3.7.3 Status Checks85
3.4.3.7.4 Instructions for Use85
3.4.3.7.5 Maintenance85
3.4.3.7.6 Retrofitting85
3.4.3.8 Quality Management in Safety Engineering86
3.4.3.8.1 Role and Benefits of Quality Management Systems86
3.4.3.8.2 Quality Management System and Qualified Personnel87
3.5 Social Considerations89
3.5.1 Prevention of Safety-Critical Failures89
3.5.1.1 National and International Developments89
3.5.1.2 Safety and Legislature89
3.5.1.3 Safety and Deregulation90
3.5.1.4 Safety and the Economy90
3.5.1.5 Safety and Assignment of Competences91
3.5.1.6 Safety as a Paramount Quality Characteristic91
3.5.1.7 Quality Management as a Concept for Safety Management92
3.5.1.8 Configuration Control and Change Procedures92
3.5.1.9 The Individual as a Criterion for Safety Management92
3.5.2 Communication with the Public About Technical Safety93
3.6 Recommendations96
3.6.1 The Research Landscape97
3.6.2 Education and Training Options of the Universities98
3.6.3 Thematic Focuses99
3.6.3.1 The Public99
3.6.3.2 Technology Council100
3.6.4 Emergency Planning102
3.6.5 Internationalization103
4 Interdisciplinary Safety Guideline104
4.1 Understanding of the Term Safety104
4.1.1 Safety as a Legal Term104
4.1.2 The Term “Technical Safety”105
4.1.3 Technical Safety as a Requirement for Product Design and Implementation106
4.1.3.1 Emission Behaviour106
4.1.3.2 Passive Quality Characteristics107
4.1.3.3 Active Functional Characteristics108