System Safety
HAZOP and Software HAZOP

Felix Redmill (Author), Morris Chudleigh (Author), James Catmur (Author)

9780471982807, Wiley

Hardback, published 14 April 1999

258 pages
23.3 x 15.7 x 2 cm, 0.51 kg

"(The authors) provide a much-needed reference on HAZOP ... provides extensive useful guidance additional to that already available in Interim Defence Standard 00-58 and in most parts is extremely readable and well written. ... this book is highly recommended for anyone contemplating the use of HAZOP, the extension of HAZOP to software-based systems or the use of other similar hazard identification technqiues.", Iain Johnstone, , The Hazards Forum Newsletter#"(The book) fully describes the entire [HAZOP] process from A to Z. It also provides all of the necessary information and details to understand HAZOP and the steps involved in performing a HAZOP on any type of system. ... If you are looking for a guide that thoroughly describes HAZOP with examples, insight and obvious experience, I highly recommend this book.", , , Hazard Prevention: Journal of the System Safety Society#"... a very useful contribution that should help practising engineers, particularly software engineers, to design safer systems.", , , Computing and Control Engineering Journal#"....a helpful and authoritative reference....", , , The Hazards Forum Newsletter, Number 29#

Unentbehrlich für alle Softwareentwickler, deren Anwendungen unbedingt sicher laufen müssen, für Sicherheitsbeauftragte und Manager! Praxiserprobte Techniken, untermauert durch ausführliche Diskussionen und Beispiele, zeigen, wie man Risiken systematisch identifiziert und beseitigt. (05/99)

Introduction


The Role of Hazard Identification in the Management of Safety


An Overview of HAZOP


Representations and Attributes


The Study Initiator's Role in HAZOP


Team Selection and the Roles of Team Members


The Use of Guide Words


Planning a HAZOP Study


Conduct of a Meeting


Recording, Signing-off and Follow-up Work


Hazard Identification throughout the Life of a System


Dealing with Particular Difficulties


HAZOP of Human-centred Systems


HAZOP of Systems in an Environment that Changes during Operation


Example PES HAZOP Sessions


Introduction, Auditing and Improvement of HAZOP.

Subject Areas: Electronics & communications engineering [TJ]