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Definition of Safety Engineering

Definition - What does Safety Engineering mean?

Safety engineering is a field of engineering that deals with accident prevention,
risk of human error reduction and safety provided by the engineered systems
and designs.
It is associated with industrial engineering and system engineering and applied
to manufacturing, public works and product designs to make safety an integral
part of operations.
The purpose of safety engineering is to control risk by reducing or completely
eliminating it. It also aims to reduce the rate of failures and if failure does occur,
it is not life threatening. Safety engineering usually begins during the design of a
system or product development.
Safety engineers study possible accidents under various conditions and bring
forward the accident risks. They then design safety guards or procedures the
operators must follow to remain safe. Sometimes, they take the help of computer
models, prototypes or replicate the situations to assess the hazards and risks.
Before implementing a system or produce a product, safety engineers consider
all possibilities, including, engineering, technical safety, material reliability,
legislations and human factors to make sure that there is no known hazard.
Safety engineering is the process of designing safer products and structures.
Safety engineering also can involve improving the safety of work sites,
manufacturing facilities and products as safety standards change.
The principles of safety engineering are to identify potential safety risks and
mitigate them. Mitigation includes reducing the odds of accidents occurring or
reducing the severity of an accident once it occurs. This process is accomplished
by changing the product design to prevent dangerous failures from occurring.
Safety measures also are added to protect people if a hazard does occur.
Fire safety engineering or fire protection engineering minimizes the risk of
buildings catching fire or collapsing during a fire. Fire safety engineering for
buildings includes installation of fire-fighting systems, providing ample means of
escape, and fire detection and warning methods.

An engineering discipline concerned with the planning development,

improvement, coordination, and evaluation of the safety component of
integrated systems of individuals, materials, equipment, and environments to
achieve optimum safety effectiveness in terms of both protection of people and
protection of property.