- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 2nd Edition edition (1 Nov 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0471618160
- ISBN-13: 978-0471618164
- Product Dimensions: 16.6 x 2.7 x 24.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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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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Format:Hardcover
I think this book is not very useful and it is also largely overpriced according to my "value for money" scale. It is quite wordy, the content seems comprehensive on safety tools (we use quite a few of those in air traffic management where I work), but there is no meaningful example of concept application. The examples provided are just simplistic "plug some numbers in a formula", with no case study that would highlight the keypoints covered in theory. Overall this is a very expensive waste of time which will not teach you how to do it in real life.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Overall a good book with some problems.
12 Jun 2000
Format: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
Decent executive level intro
17 Nov 2005
Format: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.
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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