Machine generated contents note: 0. Notice -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Priorities versus Values -- 1.2. The Crisis Cycle -- 1.3. Product-Safety Engineering -- 1.4. Scope of the Book -- 1.5. Perspective of the Book -- 1.6. Approach of the Book -- 1.7. Parts of the Book -- References -- pt. 1 Concepts -- 2. Product Safety -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. What Is Safety? -- 2.3. When Is a Product Safe Enough? -- 2.4. What Safety Is Not -- 2.5. Product-Safety Management versus Product-Safety Engineering -- 2.6. Product Safety and Product-Safety Engineering -- 2.7. Value Systems -- 2.8. History and Safety -- 2.9. Product Liability -- 2.10. Conclusion -- References -- 3. Engineering Ethics -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Priorities versus Values -- 3.3. Systems of Professional Ethics -- 3.4. Codes of Engineering Ethics -- 3.5. Ethics and Engineers -- 3.6. Applied Engineering Ethics -- 3.7. Ethics in Engineering Education -- 3.8. Conclusion -- References -- 4. Product-Safety Concepts -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Safety Hierarchies -- 4.3. Industrial Hierarchy of Controls -- 4.4. Classification of Safeguard Devices -- 4.5. Classification of Safeguard Systems -- 4.6. Dependency -- 4.7. Uniformity -- 4.8. Decreased Vigilance -- 4.9. Compatibility -- 4.10. User Activity and Safety Risk -- 4.11. User Task Load -- 4.12. User Qualification and At-Risk Populations -- 4.13. Haddon Matrix -- 4.14. Conclusion -- References -- 5. Hazards, Risks, Accidents, and Outcomes -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Recent History of System Safety -- 5.3. Definitions -- 5.4. Hazards -- 5.5. Hazard Identification -- 5.6. Risks -- 5.7. Accidents and Outcomes -- 5.8. Risk Estimation -- 5.9. Risk Management -- 5.10. Conclusion -- References -- 6. A Product-Design Process -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. A Generic Product-Design Process -- 6.3. A Specific Product-Design Process -- 6.4. The Role of Suppliers within a PDP -- 6.5. Gate Reviews -- 6.6. Conclusion -- References -- pt. 2 Application -- 7. Product-Safety Engineering -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Perceptions of Product-Safety Engineering -- 7.3. Product-Safety Management -- 7.4. The Product-Safety Engineering Function -- 7.5. Safety Reviews -- 7.6. Test Engineering -- 7.7. Forensic Engineering -- 7.8. Corporate Product-Safety Policy -- 7.9. What Is Not Helpful -- 7.10. Conclusions -- References -- 8. Engineering-Design Guidance -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Sources of Design Guidance -- 8.3. Approaches to Design Guidance -- 8.4. Application of Design Guidance -- 8.5. Effects of Design Guidance -- 8.6. Conclusion -- References -- 9. Product-Safety Facilitators -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Facilitators -- 9.3. Facilitators and Risk Reduction -- 9.4. The Design of Facilitators -- 9.5. Warning Signs -- 9.5.1. The Need for Warnings -- 9.5.2. Elements of a Warning Sign -- 9.6. Manuals -- 9.7. Manuals: Case Studies -- 9.8. Education and Training -- 9.9. Innovative Facilitators -- 9.10. Conclusion -- References -- 10. Product-Safety Engineering Methods -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Preliminary Hazards List -- 10.3. Preliminary Hazards Analysis -- 10.4. Product-Safety Matrix -- 10.5. Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis -- 10.6. Fault-Tree Analysis -- 10.7. Conclusion -- References -- 11. Product-Safety Defects and Recalls -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. Defects -- 11.3. Product-Safety Defect and Reporting Criteria -- 11.3.1. U.S. CPSC -- 11.3.2. U.S. DOT/NHTSA -- 11.3.3. U.S. Safety-Defect Criteria -- 11.4. Types of Product-Safety Defects -- 11.4.1. Manufacturing Defect -- 11.4.2. Design Defect -- 11.4.3. Marketing Defect -- 11.4.4. Summary of Types of Product-Safety Defects -- 11.5. Product-Safety Defects and the EDDTP -- 11.6. The Inevitability of Product-Safety Recalls -- 11.7. Post-Sale Product-Safety Surveillance -- 11.8. Reviewing Post-Sale Product-Safety Data -- 11.9. Product-Safety Recall-Process Model -- 11.9.0. Stage Nulla: Data Collection and Mining -- 11.9.1. Stage I: Initial Analysis -- 11.9.2. Stage II: Intermediate Analysis -- 11.9.3. Stage III: Advanced Analysis -- 11.9.4. Stage IV: Final Analysis -- 11.9.5. Stage V: Product-Safety Recall -- 11.10. Evaluating Post-Sale Product-Safety Data -- 11.11. The Making of a Product-Safety Recall Decision -- 11.12. Conclusion -- References -- 12. Conclusions -- References.
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