Safety Analysis: Thoughts on Methods and Experience

摘要

If one opens a book on safety and reliability engineering, one is confronted by the number of available techniques that can be used to analyse the safety and/or the reliability of a system. However in the author's view, often not enough emphasis is placed on the role that experience plays in building a safe system. In this paper I examine some of the issues associated with using common methods and the role in which experience mitigates some of their weaknesses.