Talk:Safety engineering

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We should expand the discussion of Fault Trees, add the concept of Event Trees, give the idea of Cutset and Minimal Cutset. Linuxlad

I think we should create a new article on Fault Trees, perhaps adding event trees into it. It's very widely used and doesn't deserve just one paragraph (no pictures) in a bigger article. --El Pollo Diablo | Talk 10:31, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

A seperate Fault Tree article could explain a lot more as well as build in the cutset concept and methods of calculation. Ultimately the Safety Engineering article would be suited to giving an overview of the topic and the way the different methods can be used to build a ‘safe‘ solution. --Colin H 21:14, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Inherent safety

Inherent safety is an important principle in and of itself, that's why I created a separate article and made some new redirects. However, the current chapter on Inherently fail-safe systems fits nicely into this article. I suggest we just move the additional examples to the main page (there is already a more… link) and keep the rest of inherent safety material as a duplicate. Arru 17:45, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Conflict on number

There seems to be a conflict between the safety certification section of this article, Life-critical system and hazard analysis regarding 10⁹ hours of operation. This article states 10⁹ seconds, which I beleive is incorrect. -Nordby73 17:46, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] singling out the nuclear industry?

On the paragraph about late correction of safety designs, it looks as if the nuclear industry was singled out. It would be a good idea to be more specific (which projects, which context, etc) or add additional examples, in other industries, such as the agro-business and the mad-cow disease, for example. Could we strive for a more neutral wording? ThierryQ 15:35, 25 October 2006 (UTC)