Hazardous States and Accidents
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Hazardous States and Accidents
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Re: Hazardous States and Accidents
#2IDK man. Aviation wasn't made safe because some people came up with a grand theory of how to make it safe and then that theory was implemented. It was made safe incrementally over time because problems were identified and resolved as they showed up. When those solutions caused other problems work was done to reconcile them. Heuristics, defaults and best practices for any given bit of minutia developed as these solutions matured. And eventually we got to the point where we are today.
So I'm kind of inherently skeptical of this sort of theory based approach to designing things.
Re: Hazardous States and Accidents
#3IDK man. Aviation wasn't made safe because some people came up with a grand theory of how to make it safe and then that theory was implemented. It was made safe incrementally over time because problems were identified and resolved as they showed up. When those solutions caused other problems work was done to reconcile them. Heuristics, defaults and best practices for any given bit of minutia developed as these soluti…
Similar to aviation s marine safety. Both started with a bunch of prescriptive rules that were added to as various accidents and near misses occured. As you say.
Then, in the last couple of decades there has been a move to performance based standards.
These work by the designers trying to anticipate hazards specific to the design and it's intended duty, and then providing mitigation to reduce the risk down to sn acceptable level.
This has a number of poditive outcomes, but not least is the expenditure on mitigation is directed in the most economic manner.
All this requires a systrmd approach, and when properly applied has been shown to yield superiour results.