Machine generated contents note: Notice -- Introduction -- Priorities versus Values -- The Crisis Cycle -- Product-Safety Engineering -- Scope of the Book -- Perspective of the Book -- Approach of the Book -- Parts of the Book -- References -- Concepts -- Product Safety -- Introduction -- What Is Safety? -- When Is a Product Safe Enough? -- What Safety Is Not -- Product-Safety Management versus Product-Safety Engineering -- Product Safety and Product-Safety Engineering -- Value Systems -- History and Safety -- Product Liability -- Conclusion -- References -- Engineering Ethics -- Introduction -- Priorities versus Values -- Systems of Professional Ethics -- Codes of Engineering Ethics -- Ethics and Engineers -- Applied Engineering Ethics -- Ethics in Engineering Education -- Conclusion -- References -- Product-Safety Concepts -- Introduction -- Safety Hierarchies -- Industrial Hierarchy of Controls -- Classification of Safeguard Devices -- Classification of Safeguard Systems -- Dependency -- Uniformity -- Decreased Vigilance -- Compatibility -- User Activity and Safety Risk -- User Task Load -- User Qualification and At-Risk Populations -- Haddon Matrix -- Conclusion -- References -- Hazards, Risks, Accidents, and Outcomes -- Introduction -- Recent History of System Safety -- Definitions -- Hazards -- Hazard Identification -- Risks -- Accidents and Outcomes -- Risk Estimation -- Risk Management -- Conclusion -- References -- A Product-Design Process -- Introduction -- A Generic Product-Design Process -- A Specific Product-Design Process -- The Role of Suppliers within a PDP -- Gate Reviews -- Conclusion -- References -- Application -- Product-Safety Engineering -- Introduction -- Perceptions of Product-Safety Engineering -- Product-Safety Management -- The Product-Safety Engineering Function -- Safety Reviews -- Test Engineering -- Forensic Engineering -- Corporate Product-Safety Policy -- What Is Not Helpful -- Conclusions -- References -- Engineering-Design Guidance -- Introduction -- Sources of Design Guidance -- Approaches to Design Guidance -- Application of Design Guidance -- Effects of Design Guidance -- Conclusion -- References -- Product-Safety Facilitators -- Introduction -- Facilitators -- Facilitators and Risk Reduction -- The Design of Facilitators -- Warning Signs -- The Need for Warnings -- Elements of a Warning Sign -- Manuals -- Manuals: Case Studies -- Education and Training -- Innovative Facilitators -- Conclusion -- References -- Product-Safety Engineering Methods -- Introduction -- Preliminary Hazards List -- Preliminary Hazards Analysis -- Product-Safety Matrix -- Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis -- Fault-Tree Analysis -- Conclusion -- References -- Product-Safety Defects and Recalls -- Introduction -- Defects -- Product-Safety Defect and Reporting Criteria -- U.S. CPSC -- U.S. DOT/NHTSA -- U.S. Safety-Defect Criteria -- Types of Product-Safety Defects -- Manufacturing Defect -- Design Defect -- Marketing Defect -- Summary of Types of Product-Safety Defects -- Product-Safety Defects and the EDDTP -- The Inevitability of Product-Safety Recalls -- Post-Sale Product-Safety Surveillance -- Reviewing Post-Sale Product-Safety Data -- Product-Safety Recall-Process Model -- Stage Nulla: Data Collection and Mining -- Stage I: Initial Analysis -- Stage II: Intermediate Analysis -- Stage III: Advanced Analysis -- Stage IV: Final Analysis -- Stage V: Product-Safety Recall -- Evaluating Post-Sale Product-Safety Data -- The Making of a Product-Safety Recall Decision -- Conclusion -- References -- Conclusions -- References.
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