I. C. 3. System Safety

(B) design readiness reviews

While important as part of the design process, readiness reviews do not specifically focus on system safety.

(B) A “negative” result means that, given the state of the technology, no peanuts can be detected.

Testing includes the capability of the measurement system including measurement error. A test that does not find evidence is only valid to the limits of the measurement capability.

(D) to accelerate material property test results

The testing of materials may provide information concerning product safety, yet is not a human factors element thus not necessary for an assessment of human factors for safety planning.

(A) performing a contingency analysis

The key word here is “contingency” which implies the failure has occurs and the analysis is for a backup or work around process.

(A) Preliminary hazard analysis is best accomplished with actual customer complaint data of the product.

The key word is “preliminary” which implies early or first analysis. Using customer complaint information implies the product is produced and shipped to customer before the analysis occurs. In general the purpose of a hazard analysis is to avoid providing a product to customers that posse a potential hazard.

(B) critical 

Hazard severity categories, originally defined in MIL-STD-1629A Procedures for Performing a Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (canceled in 1998) and currently defined in MIl-STD 882D, Standard Practice for System Safety, February 10, 2008, p. 18. define the terms as follows:

Catastrophic — Could result in death, permanent total disability, loss exceeding $1M, or irreversible severe environmental damage that violates law or regulation.

Critical — Could result in permanent partial disability, injuries or occupational illness that may result in hospitalization of at least three personnel, loss exceeding $200K but less then $1M, or reversible environmental damage causing a violation of law or regulation.

Marginal — Could result in injury or occupational illness resulting in one or more lost work days, loss exceeding $10k but less then $200k, or mitigatible environmental damage without violation of law or regulation where restoration activities can be accomplished.

Negligible — Could result in injury or illness not resulting in a lost work day, loss exceeding $2k but less then $10k, or minimal environmental damage not violating law or regulation.

Catastrophic uses the term severe, Critical uses reversible, Marginal uses mitigatible, and Negligible uses minimal. Major is less then severe and has more impact than minimal. Then for me it’s a judgment call if major corresponds with Critical or Marginal. 

(D) II, III, and IV only

Risk assessment in general is working to identify hazards that include loss of life, accidents, or injuries; equipment, property or environmental damage. While a program may consider financial risks, it not part of a safety risk assessment.

(A) discovery

discovery:

the entire efforts of a party to a lawsuit and his/her/its attorneys to obtain information before trial through demands for production of documents, depositions of parties and potential witnesses, written interrogatories (questions and answers written under oath), written requests for admissions of fact, examination of the scene and the petitions and motions employed to enforce discovery rights. The theory of broad rights of discovery is that all parties will go to trial with as much knowledge as possible and that neither party should be able to keep secrets from the other (except for constitutional protection against self-incrimination). Often much of the fight between the two sides in a suit takes place during the discovery period. (directly from http://dictionary.law.com/default.aspx?selected=530 on May 31, 2016)