The Safety Guy V1N1 - Who is the Safety Guy? What is Safety Engineering?


Introducing your host, Doug Nix, and discussing entry into the Product Safety Business, the Hazard Based Safety Engineering Model and Risk Assessment.

This is the first episode of The Safety Guy. Meet your host, Doug Nix, a practicing safety engineer since 1996. Learn about ways to learn the skills you need in this field. Find out about the IEEE's Product Safety Engineering Society. Learn about risk assessment and the new Hazard Based Safety Engineering model that is becoming widely adopted.

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Show Notes
Time Topic
00:00 What’s on the show today?
00:51 Introducing the Safety Guy.
- Why bother to podcast on machinery safety?
1:46 The Safety Guy’s philosophy
3:41 What’s in the rest of the episode?
- Introducing IEEE’s Product Safety Engineering Society
- New Machinery Safety Website
- Hazard Based Safety Engineering Model
- Basic Design Methodologies
4:41 The Need for Education in Safety-based Design
8:33 Resources for Self-Education
Web Links for this segment:
Compliance Engineering Magazine, http://www.ce-mag.com/
Compliance Magazine, http://www.compliancemag.com/
Conformity Magazine, http://www.conformity.com/
IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society (PSES), http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/pses/
IEEE EMC-PSTC List Server, 
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/pses/emc-pstc.html
IEEE Electrical Safety Forum, 
https://www.ieeecommunities.org/ieee.safety
IEEE PSES Symposium, http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/pses/symposium/index.html
11:10 The basics of safety engineering
11:26 UL University’s Hazard Based Safety Engineering Seminar, 
http://www.uluniversity.com/SUTRA/shopul/customer/home.php?cat=341
11:35 The HBSE Model
17:50 Control Measures
18:18 Risk Assessment and the Ford Pinto Case
20:40 The popularization of Risk Assessment: EN 1050 (aka ISO 14121) and the concepts of Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA)
21:45 Risk Scoring based on EN 954-1 Annex A (aka ISO 13849-1)
22:45 Bruce W. Main – Design Safety Engineering, Tom Doyle – Industrial Safety Integration
23:06 ANSI B11.19 Standard, ANSI/RIA 15.06 Standard, CSA Z434 Standard
23:40 Why don’t more machine builders do risk assessments?
24:43 Other methods – FMEA, FTA
25:30 Bruce Main’s textbook – Risk Assessment, Basics and Benchmarks

Send your comments and questions to: dnix@ieee.com

In the next episode, we'll be discussing safety based design methodology and we'll get deeper into risk assessment.

Posted: Thu - November 9, 2006 at 11:45 AM          

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