Leading edge developments in advanced safety management and applications to electrical safety

This paper discusses three evolving and leading edge developments in advanced safety management with significant potential for accelerating further improvements in prevention of serious injuries and fatalities from electrical hazards. These topics are: 1) systems safety engineering as an approach integrating application of engineering and management principles, criteria, and techniques to achieve risk as low as reasonably practicable, 2) ongoing research in human error enabling new ways of thinking about the human side of safety management, and 3) the growing movement in safety management focusing on hazards with high potential for life changing injury and fatality. This paper discusses these three topics and suggests possibilities in their application to electrical safety.