The need to manage risks exists in many sectors of our economy. For example in safety, practitioners have applied their techniques in aerospace, transportation, explosives, testing, industrial, and chemical operations for decades.
More recently, the medical, food service, and environmental sectors have begun establishing practices with similar over-arching purpose. Today, cyber-security practices are evolving.
This course provides an overview of the underlying processes used to manage risks and demonstrates the common elements that can be applied to any sector of our economy.
The most common of these processes is IARA, an acronym for Identify, Assess, Reduce, Accept. The safety case approach is also presented and benefits reviewed. The necessary understanding begins with the language and math needed to communicate and develop a risk management program. The history of improvements made in management processes is reviewed. Pascalian methods are highlighted.
This course is designed for safety engineers at all levels, as well as system engineers, and program and project managers. The beginning safety engineer will learn techniques to identify hazards as risk factors and methods to reduce the risks. The journeyman safety engineer will recognize practices used in their sector, and learn how other sectors apply similar techniques. Systems engineers and managers will gain an understanding of how safety engineering integrates into overall systems engineering, and recognize the importance of the “accept” function within overall management.
The first half of this five-day class is applicable to managing safety risks from any and all sectors. The second half focuses on specific practices applicable to system safety, range or launch safety, explosives safety, industrial or OSHA safety, operational safety, reliability, software safety, and quality.
Instructors
Course instructors have over 40 years of experience as practicing safety engineering professionals.
They will provide numerous experience-based insights during the course.
Tom Pfitzer
Founder and President of A-P-T Research, Inc. MS Industrial Engineering (System Safety Option). Nineteen years’ service in the safety career field for the U.S. Army and over 40 years in System Safety, Range Safety, and Risk Analysis experience.
Tom Delong
Former Lead Safety Engineer for GBI. 40+ years’ experience. BS Electrical Engineering; ME Industrial Engineering
Dr. Fayssal Safie
Former NASA Reliability Engineering Technical Fellow. 30+ years of NASA, industry, and university experience in Reliability and Maintainability. BS Science; BS, MS, and PhD Industrial and Systems Engineering
Barry Hendrix
Principal Engineer for Software System Safety. Former Lockheed Martin Technical Fellow for System Safety (member of G-48). 45+ years integrated weapon systems, 35 years in System Safety.
Marty Ohme
22-year Navy career as a helicopter pilot. BS in Aeronautical Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy, Master Aeronautical Science with emphasis on both Aviation Safety and Aviation Management from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and is a graduate of the U.S. Navy Aviation Safety Officer School in Pensacola, FL.
Curriculum
- Usage Guide
- Introduction (9:15)
- The Language of Risk Management (14:45)
- Checkpoint Solutions | The Language of Risk Management (0:59)
- The Math of Risk Management (42:35)
- Checkpoint Solutions | The Math of Risk Management (9:09)
- Developing or Deriving The Appropriate Risk Measure (61:08)
- History of Modern Risk Management (46:47)
- Checkpoint Solutions | History of Modern Risk Management (10:21)
- The RAC Matrix (27:48)
- Capstone Exercise Part 1 (5:41)
- Quality & Process Improvement (83:09)
- Checkpoint Solutions | Quality & Process Improvement (1:58)
- Explosives Safety (80:04)
- Checkpoint Solutions | Explosives Safety (1:40)
- Launch Safety (99:51)
- Checkpoint Solutions | Launch Safety (22:39)
- Software Safety (85:37)
- Checkpoint Solutions | Software Safety (3:24)
- Capstone Exercise Part 4