Definitions of safety-related terms
We give here the definitions of safety related term that we have found to work well.
To our best knowledge, these definitions are well founded and can be used in various domains of application. Some general notes on the definitions:
In this wiki terms to be defined (singular definiendum), definitions of those terms (definiens), and commentary on some of those definitions are presented.
Definienda are rendered in boldface, definiens in normal, and commentaries in italic font, with commentary titles in boldface italic.
Some attention has been paid to defining all the terms used, even some commonplace terms which either have or need to be assigned a technical meaning, to eliminate ambiguity. The definition of a term may usually be found in proximity to its first use, after that use (that is, the presentation style is “lazy” rather than “greedy”). Commonplace words used with commonplace meanings are left undefined.
[Edit]1 Dictionary Entries
Accident
Behaviour
Causal Analysis
Causal History
Causal-Factor Graph
Cause
Consequence
Damage
Environment
Error
Event
Factor
Failure
Fault
Harm
Hazard
Individual Risk
Necessary Causal Factor
Object
Phenomenon
Potential Factor
Process
Risk
Root Cause
Root-Causal Factor
Safety
Severity (of harm)
Societal Risk
State
System
[Edit]2 Rules for Causal-Factor Graphs
Factor-Identification Rule
Stopping Rule