TBD

Authors

  • Charles Hoes Hoes Engineering

Keywords:

fairy tale, train, Bay Bridge, SFO, psychology

Abstract

 

This installment of my TBD column involves three safety fairy tales. As is common with fairy tales, they are based on factual events, but with muddled and incomplete descriptions of what happened and why. The purpose of fairy tales is not to frighten, but to point to universal safety messages that will hopefully keep us from future dangers. I doubt my thoughts will have the impact of a great Grimm’s fairy tale, but maybe they can serve as stones on the path to improvement.

Author Biography

Charles Hoes, Hoes Engineering

Charles “Charlie” Hoes began his consulting business in 1984, providing system safety engineering services to defense, aerospace, semiconductor and general industry. During that time he has become a P.E. in Safety in the State of California, a Certified Safety Profession (CSP) with a specialty System Safety Practices and earned a Master of Science degree in Safety from University of Southern California. In 1988 Charlie incorporated his business under the name of “Hoes Engineering, Inc.” He has many years of experience volunteering in support of the International System Safety Society, filling many positions including past President of the Sacramento Chapter, the Virtual Chapter, and the System Safety Society. He is a past technical editor of the System Society’s journal Hazard Prevention (re-named to be the Journal of System Safety), as well as authoring an ongoing feature article of the Journal of System Safety called “TBD” where he discusses current concerns with the system safety profession.

In his new role of being semi-retired, Charlie continues to actively work with the System Safety Society as well as participating in a few “for hire” and volunteer projects that are particularly interesting, or important, for a variety of reasons. He is enjoying the ability of being a bit more selective with regard to projects that he accepts.

TBD

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Published

2014-02-01

How to Cite

Hoes, C. (2014). TBD. Journal of System Safety, 50(1), 6–7. Retrieved from https://jsystemsafety.com/index.php/jss/article/view/233

Issue

Vol. 50 No. 1 (2014): Catching Safety Problems at the Planning Stage

Section

Columns and Perspectives

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