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Improving Allocation of Client & Contractor Responsibilities for AS 61508 Safety Lifecycle Activities Version:Rev C |
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This paper was presented by Mike Dean to the 5th Safety Control Systems Conference held by IDC Technologies in Perth over 25-26th March 2015. Correct allocation of activities and deliverables related to the safety lifecycle of AS 61508 between a client (end-user) and contractor is crucial to achieving success for a project targeting AS 61508 compliance. Too often end-users establish specifications and scopes of work with the stated intention for the contractor to carry out all of the activities and providing all of the deliverables of overall safety lifecycle phases 1 to 13 , without appreciation End-users need to understand their own legal obligations and the intent of AS 61508 for establishing overall safety requirements. The paper proposes an allocation of responsibilities which achieves legal and AS 61508 compliance. |
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2015-07-10 436 KB 213 |
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How WHS legislation creates liabilities for risk based engineering decisions - A functional safety perspective |
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This is the paper submitted by Mike Dean to the RISK2014 conference held in Brisbane 28-30th May 2014. The paper explains why conformity to the relevant standards for functional safety does not necessarily ensure compliance with WHS obligations for SFAIRP risk reduction measures. By extension other engineering design processes that employ explicit tolerable risk thresholds also do not necessarily ensure compliance with WHS obligations for SFAIRP risk reduction measures. The paper also rebuts some recent commentary that: (a) ALARP and SFAIRP are different concepts and (b) the Model WHS Act has introduced new due diligence obligations on engineers. |
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2014-06-04 549.14 KB 1385 |
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