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Passive safety concepts applied to critical functions

Spray, S.D.; Cooper, J.A.

The use of passive safety concepts to achieve very high levels of assured safety is described. Some background on safety implementations and safety assessment methodology are reviewed, the salient features of passive safety implementations are demonstrated, and some applications for which passive safety is particularly appropriate are suggested. Included are requirements on components and processes, and design principles. Critical agents (humans, stress, equipment, and timing) are some of the pertinent factors considered.