New System Safety Process for New Business Opportunities

This paper outlines an approach to developing and implementing a systems safety process for new business applications in industries without existing system safety processes. It describes the desired characteristics of such a process and extends the discussion to include the basic needs and content of any systems safety process in general. New business applications are being created every day, and safety must be considered in these endeavors. This paper explores how to determine if such applications warrant a system safety process so that potential risk is identi-fied and appropriate prevention, detection, and mitigation content and capabilities are designed, developed, implemented, tested and verified prior to the application deliverable being placed into customer hands. The role of management in determining what is unacceptable risk and how risk is allocated between participating business and customer entities is also discussed. In this paper, “system” is used as a generic term for the product the company plans to deliver.