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Aircraft system safety: Military and civil aeronautical applications

D E Kritzinger

A must-have text for all serious practitioners of system safety. …lends itself to use by both the novice and the experienced system safety practitioner as well as being appropriate for use on both sides of the Atlantic.
Terry J. Gooch CSP, FAA DER, Adjunct Professor, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

This is a very useful reference which I shall be using in my taught courses. I will recommend it as a text for future Safety Assessment courses.
Simon Place, Lecturer in Air Transport Engineering, Cranfield University, UK

 - explores the practical aspects of safety
 - invaluable guide for students, designers, and safety assessors
 - written by a leading expert in the field

Demonstrating safety for the application of ever more complex technologies is a formidable task. System engineers often do not have the appropriate training, are unfamiliar with the range of safety approaches, tools and techniques, and their managers do not know when and how these may be applied and appropriately resourced. Aircraft system safety provides a basic skill set for designers, safety practitioners, and their managers by exploring the relationship between safety, legal liability and regulatory requirements. Different approaches to measuring safety are discussed, along with the appropriate safety criteria used in judging acceptability.

A wealth of ideas, examples, concepts, tools and approaches from diverse sources and industries is used in Aircraft system safety to bring the theory of safety concisely together in a practical and comprehensive reference. Engineering students, designers, safety assessors (and their managers), regulatory authorities (especially military), customers and projects teams should find Aircraft system safety provides an invaluable guide in appreciating the context, value and limitations of the various safety approaches used in cost-effectively accomplishing safety objectives.

ISBN 1 84569 136 9
ISBN-13: 978 1 84569 136 3
June 2006
376 pages  244 x 172mm  hardback  
£140.00 / US$240.00 / €175.00

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About the author

Duane Kritzinger CEng, PrEng, MRAeS, MBA has been practicing aircraft system safety since 1994. A 13-year career in the South African Air Force saw him represent the Military Airworthiness Board on a range of aircraft projects in South Africa, Israel, and the UK. Appointed as Principal Safety & Certification Engineer at Marshall Aerospace (Cambridge), UK in 2001, Duane has participated in a variety of aircraft modifications, both structural and avionic, for a range of international customers and regulatory authorities.

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Contents

Safety within the legal framework
 - Introduction
 - Civil liability
 - Sentencing trends
 - Organisational responses
 - Implications on the engineer
 - Discussion
 - Further reading

The safety concept
 - Understanding safety
 - The importance of safety
 - Safety segments
 - Ensuring safety

Standards and regulations
 - Introduction
 - Airworthiness
 - Source of regulations
 - Civil regulatory Authorities
 - Military regulatory authorities
 - Health and safety regulations
 - The impact on organisations
 - The impact on safety management systems
 - Discussion

Risk-based approach
 - Introduction
 - Defining risk
 - Assessing risk
 - ALARP
 - Managing the risk
 - Summarising the risk-based approach
 - Discussion
 - Further reading

Goal-based approach
 - Introduction
 - Probability targets vs failure severity levels
 - Severity and probability
 - Summary
 - Combining the risk- and goal-based criteria
 - Discussion

Hazards
 - Understanding hazards and their causes
 - Identifying hazards
 - Assessing hazards
 - Equipment failures and faults
 - Hazards of a normal functioning system
 - Systemic failures
 - Assessment approach
 - Precedence of hazard resolution
 - Safety assessment tools and techniques
 - Discussion

The fail safe dimension
 - Introduction
 - Defences against failure
 - Fail safe principles
 - Applying fail-safe principles
 - Discussion

The safety assessment
 - History
 - Aims and objective of a system safety assessment
 - The system and it relationship to safety
 - Planning the safety assessment
 - Safety during the development process
 - Modelling the safety assessment process
 - Generating the system safety assessment reports
 - Discussion

The safety case
 - History
 - Developing the requirement
 - Core component
 - The safety case Report
 - Discussion

Numerical probabilistic approach
 - Introduction
 - The fundamental concepts
 - Applied quantitative assessment
 - Assessment process
 - Specific issues of concern
 - Determining failure rates of basic events
 - Discussion

Minimum Equipment Lists (MEL)
 - Introduction
 - The concept of MEL
 - Generic approach
 - Process
 - Equipment included in an MMEL/MEL
 - Discussion
 - Further reading

The Safety Management System
 - Introduction
 - What is a SMS? Safety culture
 - Developing an SMS
 - Discussion
 - Further reading

Concluding observations
 - Aviation trends
 - Safety assessments/safety cases
 - New technologies
 - Safety engineering competence
 - Safety culture
 - Impact on projects
 - Final remarks

Appendix A: Safety assessment tools and techniques

Appendix B: Safety criteria

Appendix C: GSN safety argument