Design-Based Safety: Is System Safety a Public Misconception?

David MacCollum

doi:10.56094/jss.v55i1.50

Authors

David V. MacCollum

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56094/jss.v55i1.50

Keywords:

misconceptions, unrecognized hazards, design improvements

Abstract

Outside our professional fraternity of system safety practitioners, I am amazed at the “hocus-pocus” image of what system safety is. In lay terms, system safety needs to be explained as a learning process to identify unrecognized hazards at time of design.

Author Biography

David V. MacCollum

David V. MacCollum, 96, was a past president of ASSE and was a member of the first U.S. Secretary of Labor’s Construction Safety Advisory Committee [1969-1972]. He specialized in safety research and technical assistance on high-risk hazards to enterprise, insurance companies, universities, trade associations, attorneys, and government for over 20 years and was involved in the development of rollover protections and other safeguards and innovative construction methods and procedures. Mr. MacCollum held a B.S. degree from Oregon State University and was a Registered Professional Engineer and Certified Safety Professional. (in memoriam)