Design for Safety

Design for Safety (DfSa) will provide design engineers and engineering managers with a range of tools and techniques for incorporating safety into the design process for complex systems. It will explain how to design for maximum safe conditions and minimum risk of accidents.  The book will cover safety design practices, which will result in improved safety, fewer accidents, and substantial savings in life cycle costs for producers and users. The reader who applies DfSa principles can expect to have a dramatic improvement in the ability to compete in global markets.  Readers will find a wealth of design practices not covered in typical engineering books, allowing them to think outside the box when developing safety requirements. This topic will evolve from the Design for Safety chapters in the DfR (Design for Reliability) book published by Wiley in 2012 in its Series on Quality and Reliability Engineering. This DfSa book will be the second in the DfX series (Design for Excellence (“X”)), which is planned as a series of several books on different Design for “X” topics, such as Design for Maintainability (DfM), Design for Security (DfSe), Design for Software Reliability (DfSR), Design for Supportability (DfSu), etc.