Applying System Safety Methodologies to Consumer Product Safety

Liu, Z., Zhang, Y., Yu, P. and Mu, H.

Harm from consumer products is an increasingly serious problem that people have to face. There are too many consumer product related injury or fatality events occurring each year. To avert or mitigate the harm from consumer product related events, system safety methodologies can be used in the consumer product domain. This paper will focus on the perspective of identification and analysis problems in relation to causal factors with respect to consumer products. For a selected consumer product, we use a case study, standard matching and warning information to prepare a PHL to list the potential hazards � including causal factors leading to consumer product related injuries. Furthermore, based on the typical injury scenarios, we combine the FTA and FEMA together to form a composed method, which can be used on accident causal analysis within the consumer product safety domain.

Cite as: Liu, Z., Zhang, Y., Yu, P. and Mu, H. (2012). Applying System Safety Methodologies to Consumer Product Safety. In Proc. Australian System Safety Conference 2012 (ASSC 2012) Brisbane, Australia. CRPIT, 145. Cant, T. Eds., ACS. 77-82

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