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San Francisco Chapter and Construction Section Joint Hybrid Technical Meeting
November 16, 2022
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Topic: System Safety – The other side of hazard management
When we think of hazard management, we often think of the control of hazards directly affecting the activities of workers in the workplace; how to provide an environment that allows workers to do their job safely. System safety involves looking at infrastructure or activities as part of a larger system, identifying hazards and analyzing for probability and severity of occurrence, and mitigating the associated risk to an acceptable level. Prevention through design is practiced where possible, but system safety can (and should) be applied to existing systems. In this presentation John will talk about the practice of system safety as applied to rail transit systems, provide some real-world examples of system safety successes and failures, and hopefully give the audience a better understanding of risk acceptance in system development that can be applied to similar aspects of our responsibilities as safety professionals.