The heart of this volume consists of the presentation of 22 of the most commonly used hazard analysis methodologies in system safety, including functional hazard analysis, health hazard assessment, failure mode and effects analysis, Markov analysis, operating and support hazard analysis, software safety assessment, and sneak circuit analysis, along with illustrations and examples. Before describing how to perform these techniques, author Ericson (a project manager for system and software safety at EG&G Technical Services, Inc.) first provides an account of hazard theory, explaining the hazard-risk- mishap connection and the hazard triangle model.
