- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 2 edition (Sep 26 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0471618160
- ISBN-13: 978-0471618164
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.8 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 712 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #560,684 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Comprehensive in scope, it describes the process of system safety--from the creation and management of a safety program on a system under development to the analysis that must be performed as this system is designed and produced to assure acceptable risk in its operation. Unique in its coverage, it is the only work on this subject that combines full descriptions of the management and analysis processes and procedures in one handy volume. Designed for both system safety managers and engineers, it incorporates the safety procedures used by the Department of Defense and NASA and explains basic statistical methods and network analysis methods which provide an understanding of the engineering analysis methods that follow.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Overall a good book with some problems.,
By Bob Schmedake (St Louis, MO) - See all my reviews
This review is from: System Safety Engineering and Management (Hardcover)
Overall, the book does a great job of covering the many areas of System Safety. It is the best book I've found on the topic. However, this year I started teaching from this book. And when you teach you really discover the shortcomings of a text. It is frustrating when the author uses acronyms without explaination. I've also been running into minor math errors or oversights in formulas (e.g. defining a function f(x) and using 't' in the equation as the independent variable). I think the attempt to cover all of the material resulted in a brief overview of these areas and took away from the quality of coverage. Still, I haven't seen a better book on the topic and if the worst you can say is that it could have been better, thats not bad.
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3.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Overall a good book with some problems.,
By Bob Schmedake - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: System Safety Engineering and Management (Hardcover)
Overall, the book does a great job of covering the many areas of System Safety. It is the best book I've found on the topic. However, this year I started teaching from this book. And when you teach you really discover the shortcomings of a text. It is frustrating when the author uses acronyms without explaination. I've also been running into minor math errors or oversights in formulas (e.g. defining a function f(x) and using 't' in the equation as the independent variable). I think the attempt to cover all of the material resulted in a brief overview of these areas and took away from the quality of coverage. Still, I haven't seen a better book on the topic and if the worst you can say is that it could have been better, thats not bad. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Decent executive level intro,
By Griffongate - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: System Safety Engineering and Management (Hardcover)
While starting to show its age, Moriarty's text is a sound introduction to the executive-level or program manager as to what his safety guys are doing, why they hold up his schedule and why he pays them so much.For the supervised safety practitioner the text introduces common concepts but doesn't really do modern, embedded control systems justice. The text is expensive and not what I would consider value for money. |
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