System Safety – Reducing Risks in Complex Systems

•The emphasis of occupational safety is on training employees to understand and work with hazards in their environment.
•Occupational safety has its emphasis on systems which already exist, and therefore concentrates on compliance to regulations
•System Safety is more concerned with new systems, where hazards can be designed out and risks can be reduced. throughout development.
•System Safety considers not just hazards during operation but also hazards during other system phases.
•System Safety relies on analysis, not just experience and standards, in large part because, for the systems under consideration, that experience may not be available.