Print Email Facebook Twitter Safety Title Safety: A system state or property? Author Stoop, J.A.A.M. (Kindunos Safety Consultancy) Date 2016 Abstract Safety is frequently addressed as an emergent property of complex and dynamic systems. This contribution advocates the validity and importance of incorporating intrinsic technological hazards and systemic interrelations from a multi-actor perspective in the early phases of design and development. This perspective creates inherent properties in various system states, which may manifest themselves as emergent properties during operations. These safety properties are based on their business models, selectively focusing on primary system components such as infrastructure, vehicles or traffic management. Experiences with major aviation and railway projects highlight the potential of engineering design approaches such as multidisciplinary design optimization, value engineering and vectorial state/space modelling. Such an approach has high change potential for a specific category of high energy density complex socio-technical systems Subject safetysystems engineering designemergent propertiesrailwaysaviation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d784840c-2d6a-4cdf-b193-3ad58a54077c DOI https://doi.org/10.5296/jss.v2i2.10446 ISSN 2377-3219 Source Journal of Safety Studies, 2 (2), 129-141 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2016 J.A.A.M. Stoop Files PDF Stoop_ICSC_paper_Nov_2016.pdf 141.46 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:d784840c-2d6a-4cdf-b193-3ad58a54077c/datastream/OBJ/view